Ross G. Smith

Ross Gibson Smith (born 12 September 1942) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Smith played with St Kilda as a courageous rover. He won the Brownlow Medal in 1967 and captained Victoria at the 1972 Perth Carnival. He once broke his arm smothering a ball in the late sixties and recovered to captain the Saints in the early seventies.

He coached Subiaco to a premiership in 1973. He also coached his former club St Kilda for a single season (1977), leading them only three wins and to their first wooden spoon in 22 years.

In 1987, he was appointed as a director for the Australian Institute of Sport for 3 years, after which he was the director of Sports Science Sports Medicine research at the AIS for 10 years.

He was inducted to the Saints inaugural Hall of Fame in 2003, and then the AFL Hall of Fame in 2010. In addition he was chosen as first rover in St Kilda's Team of the Century.