[3] The majority of his career was spent at Partick Thistle where he played from 1908 to 1917, making 214 appearances in all competitions and scoring 50 goals;[4] he appeared in the finals of the Glasgow Cup in 1914[5] and the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup in 1916,[6] but finished on the losing side in both.
He had loan spells with Vale of Leven and Rangers during World War I – in the period of around six weeks he spent at Ibrox, he managed to score in five different Scottish Football League fixtures out of the seven he played in.
[2] He later played for amateur side Dunkeld and Birnham, facing Partick Thistle in the 1923–24 Scottish Cup; the Jags won the tie 11–0.
[8] He had a trial for the Scottish League XI in 1910[3] and played in the Glasgow FA's annual challenge match against Sheffield in 1914.
[9] Branscombe was involved in a fatal accident during a match on Christmas Day 1909 when he slipped on an icy surface in a challenge for the ball with James Main of Hibernian, striking the Scotland defender in the stomach with his boot with some force.