Downs was a Woodham Cup winner at Northcote in 1925, having previously played with Preston.
One of shortest ever footballers at Carlton, Downs had a poor record at the VFL tribunal.
Most famously however he received a 29-game suspension in 1931 when he was reported for kicking Richmond's captain Maurie Hunter.
In a postscript to this incident, in 1954 teammate Frank O'Rourke admitted in a newspaper interview that he kicked Hunter.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1901 is a stub.