| 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 | |||
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 gassedatDelville 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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