Clyde Smith (footballer)

Clyde Smith
Personal information
Full name Clyde James Smith
Date of birth (1901-01-28)28 January 1901
Date of death 5 January 1935(1935-01-05) (aged 33)
Place of death Frankston, Victoria
Original team(s) Sturt
Height/Weight 174 cm / 77 kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1922 Collingwood 6 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1922 season.

Clyde James Smith (28 January 1901 – 5 January 1935) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Smith made six appearances for Collingwood in the 1922 VFL season, then left the club to coach Cobram.[2]

A police constable, Smith was accidentally shot and killed by a colleague's firearm while on duty in Frankston on 5 January 1935.[3][4]

Notes

  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 826. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. "Honouring a fallen Magpie". collingwoodfc.com.au. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  3. "Police Honour Roll". The Police Association Victoria. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  4. "Young Constable and a Pistol.". The Argus (Melbourne: National Library of Australia). 11 January 1935. p. 9. Retrieved 11 November 2014.

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