Cyril Smith (footballer)

Cyril C. Smith was a Welsh professional football inside left who played 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
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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	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

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 190589161X.
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 Image 1 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. Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–2011. The Derby Books Publishing Company. pp. 256–257. ISBN 9781780910468.