Cecil Smith (footballer, born 1907)

Cecil Smith
Personal information
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)[2]
Playing position Left half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
Brentford Market
1931–1936 Brentford 3 (0)
1936–1938 Doncaster Rovers 68 (2)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Cecil Smith was an English football left half who appeared in the Football League for Brentford and Doncaster Rovers.[1]

Club career

Brentford

Smith began his career at non-league side Brentford Market and joined the club's local Football League Division Three South side Brentford in August 1931.[1] He failed to make an appearance during the 1931/32 and 1932/33 seasons, by which time the Bees had been promoted to Division Two.[3][4] Smith finally made his debut midway through the 1933/34 season, in a 3-2 defeat to West Ham United on 6 January 1934.[5] He missed the entire 1934/35 season, in which Brentford secured promotion to Division One for the first time in the club's history,[3][4] though he did win the London Challenge Cup with the reserve team.[6] Smith made two appearances in Division One, a 0-0 draw with Liverpool in April 1936 and in a 2-0 defeat to Grimsby Town that October. He departed Griffin Park in November 1936, having made just three first team appearances in five years.[1][3]

Doncaster Rovers

Smith joined Division Two strugglers Doncaster Rovers in November 1936.[1] The club suffered relegation to the Division Three North at the end of the 1936/37 season, but challenged for the title during the following campaign. Smith made 68 appearances and scored two goals before leaving in 1938.[1]

Honours

Brentford

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920-2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. p. 147. ISBN 978-0955294914.
  2. ↑ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 268. ISBN 190589161X.
  3. 1 2 3 "Brentford Football Club History". brentfordfchistory.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Football Club History Database - Brentford". fchd.info. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Brentford Football Club History". brentfordfchistory.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  6. ↑ Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. ISBN 1 874427 57 7.
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