Career
He played only one senior game that year, but from 1947 to 1957 he was a fixture in the Footscray team, missing only a total of seven games. By 1949, Donald was established as one of the best defenders in the league, and in 1950 he represented Victoria during the Brisbane Carnival. His unique understanding with full-back Herb Henderson, made for an almost impassable backline, whose record of conceding only 959 points in the 1953 home-and-away season stands as the best defence by any team since 1920.
In 2012, Donald was inducted into the Footscray/Western Bulldogs Hall of Fame, alongside Henderson.
Donald was a part of the second wave of past Footscray/Western Bulldogs players and officials to be inducted into the prestigious group. Donald played a total of 205 games for one goal — curiously kicked in the "National Day Round" of the 1952 season, when a depleted Footscray (its stars playing at the MCG for Victoria) was beaten by Street Kilda on a very muddy ground at Yallourn.
He is the only player to have two separate sequences of 100 games without a goal: the Yallourn game was his 102nd. He retired in 1958.