The next year, Crilley carried Alloa to the Second Division championship as he scored a record forty-nine goals, an amazing feat for a five-foot three center forward.
Alloa transferred Crilley to Celtic at the end of the season, but he played only three first team games, scoring a single goal.
[1] He then left Scotland to sign with New York Field Club in the American Soccer League which had not yet finished its season.
However, at some point he returned to the United States where he played eleven games of the 1924–1925 season with Indiana Flooring.
Crilley returned to the Giants for the 1925–1926 season, seeing his greatest number of games during any stint with a US team, twenty-eight.
[2] In the 1928–1929 season, he was with Brooklyn Hispano, New York Hungaria and the IRT Rangers of the Eastern Professional Soccer League.