Cyril Smith (footballer)

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]

Cyril Smith
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

Personal life

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
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
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 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. "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 978-1905891610.
  3. "Nuneaton Town 1919–1937 Part 1" (PDF). p. 128. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  4. "Crystal Palace FC". Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  5. "Cyril Smith". Holmesdale Online. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  6. "Smith Cyril Charlton Athletic 1921". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  7. "The Footballers' Battalions". www.football-league.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  8. 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.
  9. "Cyril Smith | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  10. 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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