His brothers Les and George also played VFL football, for Richmond and Melbourne respectively.

Oliver played in 33 games over three years with Collingwood in the VFL.

He was a wingman for Collingwood in the 1910 Grand Final win over Carlton.

At the time, a grazier in Swan Hill, while fighting a bushfire on the afternoon of Saturday, 19 February 1938, Oliver attempted to stop a bolting horse attached to a spring cart.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1885 is a stub.