He played as an inside forward for Sandefjord and Skeid in Hovedserien, and was capped 21 times for the Norwegian national team, scoring two goals.
[5][6] Hvidsten later also played in the Norwegian Football Cup final, when Sandefjord BK was beaten 4–0 against Fredrikstad in 1957.
[7] Hvidsten made his national team debut for Norway in a friendly match against Yugoslavia on 5 November 1950.
Together with his teammate in Sandefjord BK, Thorbjørn Svenssen, Hvidsten was selected for the Norwegian squad who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Finland.
In total, Hvidsten was capped 21 times for Norway,[9] while FIFA only recognize 19 of those as full international matches.