 He made a total of 102 appearances for Southend between 1950 and 1955, having signed from Tilbury in December 1949.He moved to Folkestone after leaving Southend United in June 1955.A goalkeeper, he made just a solitary senior appearance for the Republic of Ireland national football team, when aged 29, in an experimental line-up that defeated Luxembourg by 1–0 in a World Cup qualifier in 1954 .