Career
His place of birth has been recorded as Sarnia, Ontario, though his World War I attestation papers show a stricken out birthplace of Lobaugh (Liepāja), Russian Empire (now Latvia). Cotch played a total of 11 regular season games in the National Hockey League during the 1924-1925 season. The Maroons lost to the Montreal Canadiens in the 1922-1923 and they lost to the Ottawa Senators the following year in 1923-1924.