 Described as ""fleet of foot and an agile dribbler"", Jordan scored four goals from his 25 league appearances in 1908–09.In the following season, he lost his place first to Sam Brittleton and then to Bob Carter, but was deployed occasionally on the left wing.After two years with the "Saints", Jordan joined fellow Southern League club Reading in the summer of 1910, where he spent a year and later played for two further Southern League clubs, Stoke and Merthyr Town.