After leaving Charterhouse, Vintcent played for the Old Carthusians with his fellow old boys, and, with almost perfect timing, made his debut for the club in the fifth round of the 1880–81 FA Cup, as the O.C.s beat Clapham Rovers to reach the semi-final.[2] He was credited with a goal in the semi-final win over Darwen, although it was properly an own goal, as goalkeeper Broughton caught his throw-in but was charged between the posts.[3] He received praise for his contribution to the Carthusians' win in the final, "scarcely less" than that of the superstar Prinsep.[4]
He received his Cambridge blue in football in 1883, playing as half-back in a now-outdated 2–2–6 formation as the Light Blues beat Oxford 3–2.[5]
He missed out on a possible international cap after an ankle sprain in the London v Birmingham FA "mini" international in 1881.[6] His final game in the FA Cup came in the Carthusians' 5–3 second-round win over Great Marlow in 1884–85.[7] His final recorded match was for a Middlesex select against Oxford University at the Kennington Oval in January 1885; he signed off with a 3–2 win.[8]
Legal career
Called to the Bar in January 1885, he was admitted as an advocate in the Cape Colony the following month.[9]
In March 1886, he was appointed Crown Prosecutor of British Bechuanaland. On 10 September 1894, he was promoted to the Bench, as Judge of the new High Court of Matabeleland. The Court was abolished four years later in favour of a new court, the High Court of Southern Rhodesia, and Vintcent was appointed Senior Judge.[1]
In 1891, he married Hester Elizabeth Myburgh, with whom he had a son and a daughter. He died on 14 August 1914 of a paralytic seizure, six days after the death of his bench colleague[11] of 18 years Mr Justice Watermeyer.[1]