He played 47 international matches and scored 44 goals for the Denmark national team, making him the most capped Danish player for 22 years following his retirement.

He moved to the youth team of BK Frem in 1918, where he played alongside later internationals Kaj Uldaler and Knud Christoffersen.

Under coach Axel A. Byrval, Pauli established himself in the Frem team which won the 1925 Copenhagen Cup, beating Akademisk Boldklub (AB) 5–1 in the final.

[3] The winner of the Copenhagen Championship went on to play the best team from the rest of Denmark for the title of Danish champion.

In the ensuing 1927–28 Danish championship, Frem finished in a three-way joint first place, and due to lack of regulations for such an instance, no winner was declared in the end.

[4] With Jørgensen the leading player, Frem won the Danish championship again in the 1932–33 season, this time finishing with 16 points.

Jørgensen won his third championship in the closely contested 1935–36 season, as Frem edged ahead of runners-up Akademisk Boldklub (AB) on goal average.

The teams drew the game 2–2, and the referee, to Pauli's great displeasure, decided the winner by a coin toss.

[7] Following his playing career, Jørgensen became a coach, and managed BK Frem to the 1943–44 Danish War Tournament trophy, beating AB 4–2 in the final.

[2] Jørgensen made his international debut for the Denmark national team on 27 September 1925, in a friendly match against Finland played in Aarhus.

This included securing the 1924–28 Nordic Football Championship title for Denmark on 7 October 1928, when he scored the second Danish goal of the 3–1 victory against Sweden; the de facto final of the tournament.

[10] He did have a few brushes with the leaders of the Danish Football Association (DBU), who handed Pauli a one-year ban from the national team for "bad behavior" in 1933, only to retract the punishment before the next game.

Here, he spurred the team on to cope with the strict training regimen of English coach Edward Magner,[12] and Jørgensen scored three goals as Norway were defeated 6–3 in the tournament final.

Jørgensen was back in the Danish starting line-up, and on 17 September 1939, he broke Fritz Tarp and Valdemar Laursen's joint record from 1934, as he became the first Dane to play 45 games for the national team.