Cyril Smith (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Cyril C. Smith[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 1893 | ||
| Place of birth | Knighton, Wales | ||
| Position(s) | Inside left | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Aberdare Thursday | |||
| Newtown | |||
| 1912–1913 | Royal Welch Fusiliers | ||
| 1913–1914 | Aberdare | ||
| 1914–1916 | Croydon Common | 17 | (5) |
| 1919–1920 | Crystal Palace | 7 | (0) |
| 1920–1923 | Charlton Athletic | 7 | (0) |
| 1923–1924 | Guildford United | 18 | (6) |
| 1924–1925 | Nuneaton Town | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Cyril C. Smith was a Welsh professional footballer who played as an inside left in the Football League for Charlton Athletic.[2][3][4][5]
Personal life[edit]
Smith served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers until 1913 and served as a private in the Middlesex Regiment's 1st Football Battalion during the early years of the First World War.[6][7] He was gassed at Delville Wood during the Battle of the Somme and was evacuated to a hospital in Liverpool.[1][8] Smith ended the war as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps.[9]
Career statistics[edit]
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Croydon Common | 1914–15[1] | Southern League First Division | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5 |
| Crystal Palace | 1919–20[10] | Southern League First Division | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 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 | 70 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 79 | 21 | ||
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "Smith Cyril C" (PDF). Croydon Common Football Club. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 268. ISBN 978-1905891610.
- ^ "Nuneaton Town 1919–1937 Part 1" (PDF). p. 128. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ "Appearances". Crystal Palace FC. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "Cyril Smith". Holmesdale Online. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "Smith Cyril Charlton Athletic 1921". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "The Footballers' Battalions". www.football-league.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Cyril Smith | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ^ King, Ian (April 2012). Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–2011. The Derby Books Publishing Company. pp. 256–257. ISBN 9781780910468.
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- 1893 births
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