Arthur Prest was a goalscoring centre-half and captain of the Middlesbrough-based South Bank FC in the Northern League and he played for them in two FA Amateur Cup finals. At Bishop Auckland in 1910 they were beaten 2-1 by RMLI Gosport but he collected a winners’ medal in 1913 when South Bank beat Oxford City 1-0 in a replay. He won his only England amateur cap in the 12-2 win over Netherlands in December 1907 and the following year was one of the reserves for the Stockholm Olympics but he did not travel with the main squad.