Barty Smith

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Barty Smith
Career information
Date of birth:	(1952-03-23) March 23, 1952
Place of birth:	Richmond, Virginia
Position(s):	RB
College:	Richmond
NFL Draft:	1974 / Round: 1 / Pick 12
Organizations
As player:
1974-1980	Green Bay Packers
Career stats
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Barton Elliott Smith (born March 23, 1952) is a native of Richmond, Virginia. He was a fullback for the National Football League.

High School

He graduated from Douglas Freeman High School where he was a four-sport star. Smith was selected as the Virginia High School Player of the Year in 1969. That same year he achieved the highest honor awarded to high school athletes when he was named to the Sunkist High School All-American Football Team.

College career

Smith played football for the University of Richmond where he was recognized as one of the nations best all-around fullbacks. He starred in football at the University of Richmond from 1971 through 1973, twice being named to the All Southern Conference Football Team. Recognized as one of the all time Spider greats, Smith led the University of Richmond to the Southern Conference Title and an appearance in the Tangerine Bowl. He was the leader of the only Spider grid squad to be ranked in the Division 1 Top 20.

In 1972, Barty Smith was named as the recipient of the Jacobs Blocking Trophy presented to the Outstanding Blocker in the Southern Conference—an award which he repeated in 1973. He became the fourth Richmond Spider to be honored since the award’s inception in 1933. In his senior year, Smith won the Coffman Award, representative of the Most Valuable Player in the East-West Shrine Game in San Francisco. He ranks 8th on the University of Richmond’s rushing list with 1,941 yards and carrier touchdowns with 15.

In 1976, Smith was inducted into the University of Richmond Athletic Hall of Fame.^[1] In 1990 he was named to the University of Richmond All-Time Football Team and was inducted into the Virginia High School Hall of Fame in 1998.^[2]

Professional career

After concluding a stellar career for the University of Richmond, Barty Smith was a first round draft choice of the Green Bay Packers in 1974. He played with Green Bay from 1974 until 1980. Smith ranks 16th on the Packers all-time rushing list with 1,942 yards, scoring 18 career touchdowns.^[3] He won Packer Offensive Player of the Year honors in 1977.^[4]

References

v t e 1974 NFL Draft First Round Selections

Ed Jones Bo Matthews John Hicks Waymond Bryant John Dutton Carl Barzilauskas J. V. Cain Ed O'Neil Wilbur Jackson Bill Sandifer John Cappelletti Barty Smith Rick Middleton Randy Gradishar Don Goode Woody Green Fred McNeill Reuben Gant Henry Lawrence Dave Gallagher Lynn Swann Charley Young Bill Kollar Roger Carr Steve Riley Donald Reese

Draft years 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13

v t e Green Bay Packers first-round draft picks

Letlow Jankowski Isbell Buhler Van Every Paskvan Odson Wildung Pregulman Schlinkman Strzykalski Case Girard Heath Tonnemaker Gain Parilli Carmichael Hunter Switzer Bettis Losch Hornung Kramer Currie Duncan Moore Adderley Gros Robinson Voss Anderson Elkins Grabowski Gillingham Hyland Horn Carr Lueck Moore McCoy McGeorge Brockington Buchanon Tagge Barry Smith Barty Smith Koncar Butler E. Johnson Lofton J. Anderson Ivery Clark Cumby Campbell Hallstrom Lewis Carreker Ruettgers Fullwood Sharpe Mandarich Bennett Thompson Clark Buckley Simmons Teague Taylor Newsome Michels Verba Holliday Edwards Franks Reynolds Walker Barnett Carroll Rodgers Hawk Harrell Raji Matthews Bulaga Sherrod Perry Jones

AFC East BUF MIA NE NYJ North BAL CIN CLE PIT South HOU IND JAX TEN West DEN KC OAK SD NFC East DAL NYG PHI WAS North CHI DET GB MIN South ATL CAR NO TB West ARI STL SF SEA

Persondata
Name	Smith, Barty
Alternative names
Short description	Player of American football
Date of birth	March 23, 1952
Place of birth	Richmond, Virginia
Date of death
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.