Personal information | |||
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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]
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]
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 |
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 |
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