Career
He was elected to the Mercer Athletics Hall of Fame in 1971, and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1969. Smith was a teammate of later Georgia coach Wally Butts and played for coach Bernie Moore. 1927
He was selected All-Southern in 1927. called by one writer "the best athlete who ever put on a Mercer uniform." Smith was the first southern player to cross the goal line against the "dream and wonder" team of Georgia on a 95-yard kickoff.
In the late 1920s, he went on to play semi-pro football with the Ironton Tanks in Ironton, Ohio, a team that was the forerunner of the Cleveland Browns.
Smith was a coach and athletic director at High School, where he taught for more than 20 years.