Savage made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in round 14 of the 1938 season.
Savage then returned to Victoria to coach the Red Cliffs Football Club.
In the middle of his time at Carlton, Savage enlisted to serve in the Australian Army during World War II.
[2] Ronald Ellis Savage died at Mooroopna on 15 January 1974 and was cremated at Fawkner Memorial Park.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1917 is a stub.