[3] Bull attended Manly Boys High together and played his junior football with the Freshwater club.

Bull was a key member in the great Manly sides of the 1950s and played in all three unsuccessful Grand Final attempts during that decade – 1951, 1957 and 1959.

He was a powerful, remorseless, non-stop player, great in the wet or when slushy fields covered up his lack of pace.

After the 1977 NSWRFL season Bull was elected the Manly-Warringah club's president, succeeding Bill Cameron who had held the position for the previous 19 years.

In 2006 Bull was named in Manly-Warringah's greatest team on the club's 60th anniversary at prop with teammate Ken Arthurson as coach.