Jack Smith (footballer, born 1895)

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Jack Smith
Personal information
Full name John Reid Smith[1]
Date of birth (1895-04-02)2 April 1895
Place of birth Pollokshaws, Scotland
Date of death 1 September 1946(1946-09-01) (aged 51)[1]
Place of death Whitchurch, Wales
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[2]
Position(s)
Centre forward
Youth career
1913–1914 Battlefield Juniors
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1914 Rangers 0 (0)
1914–1915 Albion Rovers 0 (0)
1915 Wishaw Thistle
1915–1916 Albion Rovers
0000–1919 Battlefield Swifts
1919–1921 Kilmarnock 53 (32)
1921–1922 Cowdenbeath 32 (33)
1922 Rangers 3 (2)
1922–1928 Bolton Wanderers 147 (72)
1928–1933 Bury 157 (107)
1933–1934 Rochdale 25 (8)
Ashton National
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Reid Smith (2 April 1895 – 1 September 1946) was a Scottish

1926. His son (Jack Denver Smith) and grandson (Barry Smith) also played for Bolton Wanderers.[citation needed
]

Football career

Smith was born in

1920, including scoring the third goal for Kilmarnock in the final when they defeated his former team, Albion Rovers, 3–2.[4]

Following a disagreement with Kilmarnock,

Ibrox Park on 15 August 1922, scoring in a 2–0 victory over Alloa Athletic. He only made two further appearances for Rangers, scoring once more, before losing his place to Geordie Henderson.[5] Bolton Wanderers
signed him three months later.

Smith arrived at Burnden Park in November 1922 as a replacement centre-forward for Frank Roberts who had joined Manchester City. He scored an 89th-minute winner on his debut, against Manchester City, but quickly became thought of as a "crock", for he always appeared to be limping.[3] Despite this, he managed to get his fair share of goals, scoring 21 goals in 35 games in the 1924–25 season, thus helping Bolton to finish in third place in the First Division table.

He netted Bolton's second goal in the

1923 FA Cup Final against West Ham United. The goal was scored in controversial circumstances when outside-forward Ted Vizard played the ball into a central position and Smith hit the ball past Hufton in the West Ham goal. West Ham's players claimed that the ball had not entered the goal but rebounded into play from the goalpost, but referee D. H. Asson overruled them, stating that in his view the ball had entered the goal but then rebounded off a spectator.[6]

Smith won another winners' medal in

Rochdale
in August 1933.

In 1939 he was appointed assistant trainer at Cardiff City, who were managed by another ex-Wanderer, Bill Jennings.[3]

Smith died at Whitchurch, Cardiff in September 1946.[3]

Honours

Kilmarnock
  • 1920
Cowdenbeath
  • 1921–22
Bolton Wanderers
  • 1926

References

  1. ^ a b Litster, John. Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
  2. ^ Harricus (20 August 1923). "Prospects of the clubs in the First Division of the League. Bolton Wanderers". Athletic News. Manchester. p. 5.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "The story of John Reid Smith". Bolton Evening News. 6 November 2003. Retrieved 14 October 2008.
  4. ^ "Smith JR "Jack" Image 1 Bolton Wanderers 1923". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Rangers Player John Reid Smith Details". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Bolton clinch the Cup". BBC. 1 October 2000. Retrieved 14 October 2008.

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