Fox won Yark Football Club's best and fairest in 1951.
[1] and won the Hume Highway Football League's best and fairest award in 1952.
He kicked 24 goals from 19 games for Essendon in the 1955 VFL season, three of which came in the semi-final against Geelong.
[3] His last game for Essendon was the 1957 VFL Grand Final, which he played as a centre half-forward, in a losing team.
At the end of the year he retired, but later made some appearances for the Katunga Football Club.