Born on Rottnest Island, Back played for Fremantle in the WACA grade cricket competition, and led the league's batting averages during the 1887–88 season, scoring 267 runs from ten innings at an average of 53.50.
[1] His only state-level matches played during Western Australia's tour of the eastern colonies in early 1893.
He opened the batting for the side in both of its two first-class matches on the tour, against South Australia and Victoria, variously partnering with Percival Hussey, Harry Bennett, and Ernest Randell.
[3][4] He also played in two other matches on tour, against the Melbourne Cricket Club and a "juniors" representative team from Victoria.
[6] He had been a member of a local fraternal organisation, the Oddfellows, before his death, as well as a founding member of the Fremantle District Cricket Club, who wore black armbands in their next match.