 The team finished sixth in the league 10 points behind winners Notts County.In the 1897–98 season he was City's leading scorer with 18 goals in 30 games, helping the team to third in the second division, nine points behind winners Burnley.In the following season, the 1898–99 football season, he was the club's second leading goalscorer with 17 goals and helped City, who were only defeated twice in the entire season, to earn promotion to the first division.