George Smith

Football career Smith was born in Sunderland, which was then in County Durham. and had been playing football as a centre half for Easington Colliery Welfare for "two or three seasons" when he joined Third Division South club Clapton Orient on trial in December 1929. The trial came to nothing, but a year laterby which time he was reportedly "one of the best half-backs in the Wearside League"

He made his Football League debut in the last match of the season, a 1–0 win at Norwich City in the Third Division South, which proved to be his only senior appearance for the club. In August 1932, he signed for Clapton Orient on a free transfer, He appeared more frequently for Darlington, playing 13 times in the Third Division North and scoring once. He scored 11 goals over the season, helping the club win the Western Section of the Southern League and reach the third round proper of the 1934–35 FA Cup, in which they lost to First Division Liverpool. He played twice for Bath City in the 1936–37 season.