Career
Cummings was the captain of Aston Villa"s great post-war defence, having signed for the club before the war, in 1935 from Partick Thistle. He represented both Scotland and the Scottish League XI. He was Villa"s skipper from 1945 to 1949. He played 237 times for Villa between 1935 and his retirement in 1949.
On retirement he worked for the Dunlop Rubber Company and Hardy Spicer Limited. in Birmingham.