Certainly, as a goalkeeper of promise, Waugh's football began at Durhamtown Rangers from a long-gone, mining village just to the south-west of Bathgate and he had trials for the town-team itself, then in the League, before at just eighteen being signed by Hearts. And it was on the Tynecastle books that he was to remain for the next fourteen years, however in that time making a total of only just over the hundred starts for the parent-club, the bulk from 1936-7.     

However, that is not to say that he was inactive. From 1929 in the three seasons to 1932 he was loaned out to Third Lanark, making again a century plus starts and winning the Second Division title in 1931. He even then went out for a short loan-spell to Hibs but from the autumn of 1936 he became The Jambos' first choice to suspension of the game at the start of the Second War, a period which in 1937 included a single cap.  

By the War remarkably Wull was still only in his late twenties and by its end just thirty-five with an perhaps an expectation of several more seasons in the game. In fact it was to be only one, at East Stirlingshire, at which point he returned to West Lothian, there working as a Steel Dresser. But he did it as a married man. In 1930 he, recorded then as a General Labourer, had married Mary Ferguson with whom he was to have two children. She was from Livingston and it was there they would settle and live the rest of their lives, Mary dying in 1972 at the age of sixty-one., he following just two years later, aged sixty-four, to be cremated at Edinburgh's Warriston's Cemetery.