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Leslie
Smith |
Brentford FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D
0 L 0 F 2: A 0
100% successful
1939
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Leslie George Frederick Smith |
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Born |
13 March 1918
in Ealing, Middlesex
[registered in
Brentford, March 1918]. |
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census notes |
Cannot be found on the 1939
register. |
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Married |
to Joan
M. Purser, on 14 August 1943
[registered in Midhurst, September 1943]. |
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Died |
20 May 1995 in
Lichfield, aged
77 years 67 days
[no registration can be found], after battling with Alzheimer's
Disease. Death date confirmed by his son, Martin. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
8", 11st.
0lbs [1938]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Played schoolboy football
in West London schools and played for junior clubs such as Petersham FC in
1932 and AFC Wimbledon in 1933, from where he signed amateur forms with
Brentford FC on 26 June 1934. He earned experience with Hayes FC before he
turned professional in March 1936. He guested for Chelsea FC during the
war. After 67 league appearances for the Bee's,
and seven goals, he joined Aston Villa FC in October 1945 for a £7500
transfer fee. He repaid the fee with 31 goals
in 181 league outings. Smith returned to Brentford FC in June 1952
for a £3000 fee. But only played fourteen
league appearances, scoring once. In August 1953, Smith then joined
Kidderminster Harriers FC, becoming their player-manager for the season. |
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Club honours |
FA
Amateur Cup runners-up 1934-35; FA Cup
(wartime) winners 1941-42, 1944-45; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Smith remains the youngest
player ever to feature in an FA Amateur Cup Final |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
654th
player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-left |
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Only match |
No.
226, 24 May 1939,
Romania
0 England 2,
an end-of-season tour match at Stadionul Agenţia Naţională de Educaţie Fizică, Bucureşti, aged
21 years
72 days. |
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Major tournaments |
None |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
England wartime
(fifteen appearances) |
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Distinctions |
Died a week
after Teddy Sandford |
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Beyond England |
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From 1954 to 1956, Smith was a club
scout for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. He was also a proprietor of a
radio/television business based in the Aston area of Birmingham. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.228. |
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