Bert Smedley

Ernest Edward "Bert" Smedley (1 April 1905 – 30 November 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the late 1920s.

Recruited from the Castlemaine in the Bendigo Football League where he won the 1927 goalkicking award with 79 goals.

Smedley debuted in the 1928 VFL season and finished the year with exactly 50 goals, a tally which included six goal haul in just his second VFL game and a high of eight goals which he kicked in a win over North Melbourne at Arden Street.

The Castlemaine recruit was involved in a controversial incident in St Kilda's round 17 encounter with Melbourne. In the dying seconds, a pass from Horrie Mason had found Smedley, who played on and was running into an open goals when the bell rang. before being cleared back to Prahran in April 1931.