Walker only missed two games during his first full season, scoring 12 goals in 38 games, a decent return for an inside forward. He was a regular member of the Anfield club's first league championship win in 1901, and scored the winning goal against West Bromwich Albion on the final day of the season to secure the title.[1]
Walker played another 18 times for Liverpool in 1901–02 before returning to Scotland to join Rangers, who had just won a fourth successive domestic title but were also facing financial troubles due to the reconstruction work required on their stadium after the recent 1902 Ibrox disaster. He scored at a rate of nearly a goal every two league games over his three seasons with the Glasgow club, and appeared in two further Scottish Cup finals.[4] In 1905 he moved on to play for Morton,[3] however he was there for only a short time before suffering a serious knee injury which ended his playing career.[2]
In 1910, Walker moved to Canada to become an engineer with Manitoba Telephones.[2] He eventually enlisted for service in World War I (although was initially rejected due to his injured leg), joining the Canadian Military Engineers in 1916 and spending most of the conflict attached to the Canadian Signal Corps.[2] After the war he returned to his telecoms job in Manitoba. He died in 1937 from an accident while cutting wood.[2]
^ ab"Rangers Player John Walker". FitbaStats. Retrieved 22 September 2018. In the source, Walker's Rangers spell has been appended with an additional season played in defence by a younger player of the same name who joined the club at the same time the older Walker left in 1905