Personal information | |||
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Full name | Jeffrey Edward Smith [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 8 December 1935||
Place of birth | Chapeltown, England | ||
Position(s) | Left back | ||
Youth career | |||
– | Sheffield United | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1953–1958 | Sheffield United | 10 | (10) |
1958–1967 | Lincoln City | 315 | (2) |
Total | 316 | (12) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jeffrey Edward "Jeff" Smith (born 8 December 1935) is an English former professional footballer who made 316 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United and Lincoln City. [1] [2]
Smith was born in Chapeltown, Sheffield and began his football career as a junior with Sheffield United. He turned professional with that club, but played only once in the Second Division – in a 5–1 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield on 1 December 1956 [3] – before moving on to Lincoln City, also a Second Division club, in February 1958. [1]
He played regularly for Lincoln at left back, remaining with the club as they fell from the Second to the Fourth Division. [1] When Lincoln were relegated to the Third Division in 1961, the Daily Mirror commented that there were "several talented players in the side – notably young inside right Roger Holmes and sound left back Jeff Smith". [4] He was released in 1967, having scored twice from 351 games in all senior competitions, [1] a total which at the time placed him second behind Tony Emery in Lincoln's all-time appearances list. [5]
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Jeffrey Edward Smith [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 8 December 1935||
Place of birth | Chapeltown, England | ||
Position(s) | Left back | ||
Youth career | |||
– | Sheffield United | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1953–1958 | Sheffield United | 10 | (10) |
1958–1967 | Lincoln City | 315 | (2) |
Total | 316 | (12) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jeffrey Edward "Jeff" Smith (born 8 December 1935) is an English former professional footballer who made 316 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United and Lincoln City. [1] [2]
Smith was born in Chapeltown, Sheffield and began his football career as a junior with Sheffield United. He turned professional with that club, but played only once in the Second Division – in a 5–1 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield on 1 December 1956 [3] – before moving on to Lincoln City, also a Second Division club, in February 1958. [1]
He played regularly for Lincoln at left back, remaining with the club as they fell from the Second to the Fourth Division. [1] When Lincoln were relegated to the Third Division in 1961, the Daily Mirror commented that there were "several talented players in the side – notably young inside right Roger Holmes and sound left back Jeff Smith". [4] He was released in 1967, having scored twice from 351 games in all senior competitions, [1] a total which at the time placed him second behind Tony Emery in Lincoln's all-time appearances list. [5]