Cyril Smith (footballer)
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Cyril C Smith[1] | ||
Date of birth | 1893 | ||
Place of birth | Knighton, Wales | ||
Playing position | Inside left | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Aberdare Thursday | |||
Newtown | |||
Royal Welsh Fusiliers | |||
1912 | Aberdare | ||
1914–1916 | Croydon Common | 17 | (5) |
1919 | Crystal Palace | ||
1920–1921 | Charlton Athletic | 7 | (0) |
1923–1924 | Guildford United | 18 | (6) |
1924–1925 | Nuneaton Town | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Cyril C. Smith was a Welsh professional football inside left who played in the Football League for Charlton Athletic.[2][3]
Personal life
Smith fought with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.[4] He was gassed on the Somme in the summer of 1916 and evacuated to Liverpool.[5]
Career statistics
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Croydon Common | 1914–15[1] | Southern League First Division | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5 |
Charlton Athletic | 1920–21[1] | Southern League English Section | 21 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 26 | 9 |
1921–22[1] | Third Division South | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
Total | 28 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 33 | 9 | ||
Guildford United | 1923–24[1] | Southern League Eastern Division | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 7 |
Career total | 63 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 72 | 21 |
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Croydon Common Football Club Biographies" (PDF). Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ↑ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 268. ISBN 190589161X.
- ↑ "Nuneaton Town 1919–1937 Part 1" (PDF). p. 128. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ↑ "The Footballers' Battalions". www.football-league.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
- ↑ Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. p. 146. ISBN 978-0857330772.
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