He played in the NFL for the Rock Island Independents, Green Bay Packers and Duluth Eskimos.

He also played for the Minneapolis Marines prior to their entry into the NFL.

[2] Buland played as a ringer for West Duluth in 1916 and for Rock Island in 1917.

[3] Buland served in the 122nd Machine Gun Battalion during World War I and fought in the trenches near Amiens, France, and in the battle of Saint-Mihiel.

[3] After Buland's death, sportswriter George Barton of the Minneapolis Tribune remembered that men who had played against Buland, including many former University of Minnesota Gophers players, declared Buland "could have won a place at tackle at any university in the Western conference, or anywhere else for that matter, had he decided upon a college career.