However, after relegation in 1938 was narrowly avoided over the summer Symon signed for Rangers. Meantime he had been selected for Scotland, but as a cricketer, a bowler, against the touring Australians and taking a remarkable five for thirty-three. Success at Ibrox was also to follow. The club took the league title at the end of the season by when Scott had won his first and, as it happened, only Scotland cap. He also was married that summer, in Portsmouth to a local, Hampshire girl, Doreen Pearn.  

The Second World War would both interrupt and effectively bring to an end Symon's playing career. In 1945 he went back to Rangers but was on the team's fringes until retirement in 1947. But management called immediately, with six seasons including two League Cup wins and then south once more for one at Preston and an FA cup Final. That was until Rangers came calling, turning to him as the replacement of the retiring Bill Struth.