[2] He played eight seasons in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Newtown club from 1949 to 1956.
He played on the wing for the Newtown teams which won the 1954 and 1955 minor premierships, but lost both seasons' grand finals to Souths.
At the end of the 1954 NSWRFL season Preston played for Newtown on the wing in their grand final loss to South Sydney.
[4] Preston was also a professional runner, winning the Hanlon Gift (which was Queensland's largest 'prize money' footrace of the era) in Brisbane in 1957.
This rugby league football biography relating to an Australian born in the 1920s is a stub.