Roderick Angus Smith (June 28, 1894 – November 25, 1961) was a professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two o ...

player. He played with the Saskatoon Crescents of the

Western Canada Hockey League The Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), founded in 1921, was a major professional ice hockey league originally based in the prairies of Canada. It was renamed the Western Hockey League (WHL) in 1925 and disbanded in 1926. The WCHL's Victoria ...

between 1922 and 1924. Smith was also a member of the

Winnipeg 61st Battalion Winnipeg 61st Battalion was a Canadian ice hockey team. Composed of players from the 61st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force created to participate in World War I, the team won the Pattison Trophy in 1915–16 as Manitoba provincial ...

team which captured the 1916

Allan Cup The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men's ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montagu Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, and has been competed for since 1909. The current champions are th ...

as amateur champions of Canada.1916 61st Battalion
Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame While on the Winnipeg 61st Battalion team Smith played alongside fellow defenseman and future Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Bullet Joe Simpson. He died in 1961 and is buried at Riverside Memorial Park in Regina.

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* 1894 births 1961 deaths Canadian ice hockey defencemen Ice hockey people from Manitoba Saskatoon Sheiks players Sportspeople from Selkirk, Manitoba {{Canada-icehockey-defenceman-1890s-stub