Cecil Smith (footballer, born 1907)

Cecil Smith
Personal information
Full name Cecil Sydney Frank Smith[1]
Date of birth 16 June 1907
Place of birth Hounslow, England
Date of death 1990 (aged 82–83)[2]
Playing position Left half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Brentford Market
1931–1936 Brentford 3 (0)
1936–1938 Doncaster Rovers 68 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Cecil Sydney Frank Smith (16 June 1907 – 1990) was an English football left half who appeared in the Football League for Brentford and Doncaster Rovers.[1]

Club career

Brentford

Smith began his career at non-league side Brentford Market and joined the club's local Football League Division Three South side Brentford in August 1931.[1] He failed to make an appearance during the 1931–32 and 1932–33 seasons,[3] by which time the Bees had been promoted to Division Two.[4] Smith finally made his debut midway through the 1933–34 season, in a 3–2 defeat to West Ham United on 6 January 1934.[3] He missed the entire 1934–35 season, in which Brentford secured promotion to Division One for the first time in the club's history,[3][4] though he did win the London Challenge Cup with the reserve team.[5] Smith made two appearances in Division One, a 0–0 draw with Liverpool in April 1936 and in a 2–0 defeat to Grimsby Town that October.[3] He departed Griffin Park in November 1936, having made just three first team appearances in five years.[1]

Doncaster Rovers

Smith joined Division Two strugglers Doncaster Rovers in November 1936.[1] The club suffered relegation to the Division Three North at the end of the 1936/37 season, but challenged for the title during the following campaign. Smith made 68 appearances and scored two goals before leaving in 1938.[1]

Honours

Brentford

Career statistics

Club Season League FA Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Brentford 1933–34[3] Second Division 1 0 0 0 1 0
1935–36[3] First Division 1 0 0 0 1 0
1936–37[3] 1 0 — 1 0
Career total 3 0 0 0 3 0

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920–2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. p. 147. ISBN 978-0955294914.
  2. ↑ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 268. ISBN 190589161X.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. pp. 372–374. ISBN 0951526200.
  4. 1 2 "Football Club History Database – Brentford". fchd.info. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  5. 1 2 Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. pp. 82–83. ISBN 1 874427 57 7.
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