 A prolific right-arm fast bowler, he took 108 wickets for Oxford at an average of 19.43.He took five wickets in an innings on ten occasions and took ten wickets in a match twice, with best his best innings figures remaining his 8 for 82 on debut.His debut season was his most prolific, with 58 wickets at an average 16.22, followed by the 33 wickets he took at an average of 12.84 in 1886, with his form dipping in this final year at Oxford, when he took 15 wickets at an average of 30.46.