Personal information | |||
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Full name | Cecil Sydney Frank Smith[1] | ||
Date of birth | 16 June 1907 | ||
Place of birth | Hounslow, England | ||
Date of death | 1990 (aged 82–83)[1] | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Left half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Brentford Market | |||
1931–1936 | Brentford | 3 | (0) |
1936–1939 | Doncaster Rovers | 68 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Cecil Sydney Frank Smith (16 June 1907 – 1990) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Brentford and Doncaster Rovers as a left half.
Smith began his career at non-League club Brentford Market and joined local Football League Third Division South club Brentford in August 1931.[3] He failed to make an appearance during the 1931–32 and 1932–33 seasons,[4] by which time the Bees had been promoted to the Second Division.[5] Smith finally made his debut midway through the 1933–34 season, in a 3–2 defeat to West Ham United on 6 January 1934.[4] He missed the entire 1934–35 season, in which Brentford were promoted to the First Division for the first time in the club's history,[4][5] though he did win the London Challenge Cup with the reserve team.[6] Smith departed Griffin Park in November 1936, after making just three first team appearances in five years with Brentford.[3]
Smith joined Second Division strugglers Doncaster Rovers in November 1936.[3] He made 68 league appearances and scored two goals before leaving at the end of the 1938–39 season.[1][7]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Brentford | 1933–34[4] | Second Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
1935–36[4] | First Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
1936–37[4] | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | |||
Career total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
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