[5] Despite excellent work form the Clauss and the rest of the Oxford three-quarters,[6] the forwards had exhausted themselves through too much tight scrimmaging in the first half of the match,[5] and the Cambridge team won by two tries to nil.

In the final game of the Championship, Clauss scored a dropped goal eight minutes from the start,[8] and Scotland never gave away the lead for the rest of the match.

Between the 1891 and 1892 seasons, Clauss was invited to join the British Isles team on their tour of South Africa.

[9] Although Clauss was not in the team for the games against Port Elizabeth and Eastern Province he was brought in at his preferred three-quarters position along with tour captain Bill Maclagan and Randolph Aston.

Protracted mauling and fighting between the forwards slowed the fluency of the game, and England won by a single converted try.

Clauss was brought in at the unfamiliar position of half back, after the retirement of William Wotherspoon left a gap that the Scottish selectors had difficulty filling.

Although Scotland won the game 6–0, Clauss lost his place to the more experienced half back William Donaldson.

In 1890, Clauss was approached by William Percy Carpmael, an ex-Cambridge player, to join his newly formed touring side the Barbarians.