Personal information | |||
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Full name | Francis Archer Branscombe | ||
Date of birth | 6 May 1889 | ||
Place of birth | Dennistoun, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 14 April 1942[1] | (aged 52)||
Place of death | Maryhill, Scotland | ||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Outside left | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
– | Clydebank Juniors [2] | ||
1908–1917 | Partick Thistle | 182 | (37) |
1915–1916 | Vale of Leven (loan) | ||
1916 | Rangers (loan) | 7 | (5) |
– | Dunkeld and Birnham | ||
Total | 189 | (42) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Francis Archer Branscombe (6 May 1889 – 14 April 1942) was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as an outside left. [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. [7] In 1917 he left Scotland to work in the wartime munitions industry in Woolwich. [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. Main died from his injuries the following day. [10] [11] The incident affected the form of 20-year-old Branscombe for some time. [12]
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