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Sid Smith Sr.

Australian rules footballer

Sid Smith
Personal information
Full name	Sidney Norman Smith
Date of birth	(1890-10-25)25 October 1890
Place of birth	Geelong, Victoria
Date of death	26 February 1952(1952-02-26) (aged 61)
Place of death	Geelong, Victoria
Original team(s)	Barwon Football Club
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1911	Geelong	5 (4)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1911.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Sidney Norman Smith (25 October 1890 – 26 February 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Family

The son of Frederick Smith (1860-1891),^[2] and Annie Elizabeth Smith (1863-1939), née Clarke, later Mrs. Archibald James Young,^[3]^[4] Sidney Norman Smith was born at Geelong on 25 October 1890.

He married Ivy Kathleen Keene (1892-1973) on 2 May 1918.^[5] Their son (also "Sid Smith") played for Geelong in 1952 and 1953.

Football

Recruited from the Barwon Football Club in the local Geelong and District Football Association (GDFA),^[6] he played five senior VFL games for Geelong, in the first five rounds of the 1911 season, and then returned to play with the Barwon club.^[7]

Death

He died in a private Geelong hospital on 26 February 1952,^[8] and was buried at the Geelong Western Public Cemetery.^[9]

Notes

^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.833.
^ Deaths: Smith, The Geelong Advertiser, (Thursday, 1 October 1891), p.1.
^ Marriage: Smith—Clarke, The Geelong Advertiser, (Friday, 11 November 1887), p.2.
^ Marriages: Young—Smith, The Geelong Advertiser, (Saturday, 11 December 1892), p.1.
^ Marriages: Smith—Keene, The Argus, (Saturday, 6 July 1918), p.13.
^ Geelong Junior Competition, The Geelong Advertiser, (Monday, 1 May 1911), p.6.
^ Football: Barwon v. East Geelong, The Geelong Advertiser, (Friday, 27 September 1912), p.6.
^ Deaths: Smith, The Age, (Wednesday, 27 February 1952), p.13.
^ Funeral Notices: Smith, The Age, (Wednesday, 27 February 195), p.13.

References

Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.