Player Info
Gilbert Oswald Smith
Born: 25th November 1872, Croydon, Surrey
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Position whilst with England: Centre Forward
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Clubs whilst with England: Corinthians
- Considered by many to be the world's best player of the 19th Century.
Match Statistics
- Type
- Caps
- Goals
- Capt
- Mins
- Home Championship
- 20
- 11
- 14
- 1800
- 0
- 0
- Competitive
- 20
- 11
- 14
- 1800
- 0
- 0
- Home
- 9
- 6
- 7
- 810
- 0
- 0
- Away
- 11
- 5
- 7
- 990
- 0
- 0
- Total
- 20
- 11
- 14
- 1800
- 0
- 0
Match Statistics
- Debut
- v
Ireland (HC) on 25th February 1893 aged 20 years, 92 days - Last Cap
- v
Scotland (HC) on 30th March 1901 aged 28 years, 124 days - First Goal
- v Ireland (HC) on 25th February 1893 aged 20 years, 92 days
- First Captaincy
- v
Wales (HC) on 16th March 1896 aged 23 years, 111 days - Career
- 8 years, 32 days
- Starts
- 20
- Substitute
- 0
- Withdrawn
- 0
- Full Games
- 20
Sources
- An English Football Internationals' Who's Who by Douglas Lamming (Hutton Press 1990)
Match List
- SCO, 30th Mar 01 (HC)
- SCO, 7th Apr 00 (HC)
- WAL, 26th Mar 00 (HC)
- IRE, 17th Mar 00 (HC)
- SCO, 8th Apr 99 (HC)
- WAL, 20th Mar 99 (HC)
- IRE, 18th Feb 99 (HC)
- SCO, 2nd Apr 98 (HC)
- WAL, 28th Mar 98 (HC)
- IRE, 5th Mar 98 (HC)
- SCO, 3rd Apr 97 (HC)
- WAL, 29th Mar 97 (HC)
- IRE, 20th Feb 97 (HC)
- SCO, 4th Apr 96 (HC)
- WAL, 16th Mar 96 (HC)
- IRE, 7th Mar 96 (HC)
- WAL, 18th Mar 95 (HC)
- SCO, 7th Apr 94 (HC)
- WAL, 12th Mar 94 (HC)
- IRE, 25th Feb 93 (HC)