[2] Cazaly crossed to fellow VFL side St Kilda and made his senior debut in 1911 during a players' strike, when many of St Kilda's regular senior players refused to play as a result of a dispute with the club's committee over dressing rooms.

[3] One of nine new players in the team, Cazaly played his only First XVIII match for St Kilda against Carlton, at Princes park, on 29 July 1911.

[4] During the depression of the early 1930s, he worked on the Melbourne waterfront and played with waterside workers in a midweek football competition.

Cazaly was famous for his ability to take spectacular marks despite his small stature, and, at South Melbourne, teammates Fred "Skeeter" Fleiter and Mark "Napper" Tandy would simultaneously yell "Up there, Cazzer",[5] originating the phrase that would become synonymous with Australian rules football.

[citation needed] In 2009, The Australian nominated Cazaly as one of the 25 greatest footballers never to win a Brownlow Medal.

[6] In 1928, he played for the South Melbourne Districts Football Club, including in a losing VFL Sub-Districts grand final in 1928.

[7][8][9] He departed Victoria at the end of the year and headed for Launceston, Tasmania, before returning in 1931 to coach Preston in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

Throughout his career, he stood at just 180 centimetres (5 ft 11 in), which is short for a ruckman, although his high leap made up for this, and he was incredibly fit.