Sidney Norman Smith (25 October 1890 – 26 February 1952) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played with
Geelong
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung language, Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River (Victo ...
in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL).
Family
The son of Frederick Smith (1860-1891), and Annie Elizabeth Smith (1863-1939), née Clarke, later Mrs. Archibald James Young, Sidney Norman Smith was born at Geelong on 25 October 1890.
He married Ivy Kathleen Keene (1892-1973) on 2 May 1918. Their son (
also "Sid Smith") played for Geelong in 1952 and 1953.
Football
Recruited from the
Barwon Football Club
Barwon Football Club was a 19th-century Australian rules football club based in South Geelong, Victoria, and for a brief period during the mid-1870s, was provincial Victoria's strongest football club.
The club was established in 1874 in the gr ...
in the local
Geelong and District Football Association (GDFA), 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.
Death
He died in a private Geelong hospital on 26 February 1952, and was buried at the
Geelong Western Public Cemetery.
Funeral Notices: Smith, ''The Age'', (Wednesday, 27 February 195), p.13.
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1890 births
1952 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Geelong Football Club players
East Geelong Football Club players
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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