Cyril Smith (footballer)

Cyril Smith
Personal information
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 7 (0)
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][4][5]

Personal life

Smith fought with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.[6] He was gassed on the Somme in the summer of 1916 and evacuated to Liverpool.[7]

Career statistics

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[8] Southern League First Division 700070
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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Croydon Common Football Club Biographies" (PDF). Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 268. ISBN 190589161X.
  3. ↑ "Nuneaton Town 1919–1937 Part 1" (PDF). p. 128. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Crystal Palace FC". Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  5. ↑ www.holmesdale.net, Holmesdale Online. "Cyril Smith". Holmesdale Online. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "The Footballers' Battalions". www.football-league.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ King, Ian. Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–2011. The Derby Books Publishing Company. pp. 256–7. ISBN 9781780910468.


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