However, he was a also a noted cricketer, his team Clydesdale that at the time had its ground at Kinning Park near to where he stayed and when it in 1872 formed a football section he was both a founder and switched playing allegiance, although retaining Queen's Park membership. It meant that, whilst he was not included in the eleven Queen's Park players, who took the field in Glasgow on 30th November that same year in the World's first international, he did play in the first Scottish Cup Final in 1874 that would see Clydesdale lose to Queen's Park and a year earlier. 1873, he had been invited to and did play in the Scotland eleven, drawn still mainly from Queen's Park, that travelled to London to take on England once more, in a game that was lost but in which he scored Scotland's second ever goal. However, it was to be his only cap. He would go on to play in two trials but was not selected again before finally hanging up his boots in 1876.