[2] Brown made his Football League debut whilst at Stoke, in a home fixture against Derby County on 1 September 1904.
[2] Having made nineteen league appearances for Norwich, scoring one goal, he returned to London to sign for Millwall Athletic in 1906.
Having made 25 league appearances for Millwall, Brown returned north the following season to sign for Lincolnshire side Gainsborough Trinity.
Signed on the basis of being a "fast and tricky" winger, he failed to impress, with the local media claiming that he 'held onto the ball too long',[1] and he made only one more league appearance for the Blades before being released at the end of the 1908–09 season.
[1] After his football career finished it was reported in 1925 that Brown was the caretaker of the British Seaman's Institute in Tarragona in Spain.