On that form he must have been noted by the British game but he returned to Rhode Island, where he seems to have played on as a right-winger cum occasional centre-half for at least three seasons more. They would include in 1893 the winning of the American Cup, he scoring the third and final goal, and in 1894 captaining the team. However, at that point and still only twenty-six he disappears at least from on-field but he was clearly refereeing. Indeed in 1897 he had the whistle in the fourth and deciding game of the final again of the American Cup, won by Manz of Philadelphia. 

Alex Jeffrey's withdrawal from playing may well be explain by in 1896 and in their adopted home town of Central Falls by Pawtucket he marrying Marion Orr, with whom he was to have six children. She had arrived in the States only in 1893 and notably from Paisley. Alex, himself, had in born in Kilbirnie in Ayrshire, the son of an Iron/Coal Miner from Stewarton and a mother from Airdrie and in America would find work first as a Labourer and then as a Machinist.