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Australian rules footballer

Vin Smith
Personal information
Full name	Alfred Vincent Smith
Date of birth	(1914-01-23)23 January 1914
Place of birth	Hawthorn, Victoria
Date of death	17 February 1995(1995-02-17) (aged 81)
Place of death	Dimboola, Victoria
Original team(s)	Camberwell
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1935	Hawthorn	11 (11)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1935.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Alfred Vincent Smith (23 January 1914 – 17 February 1995) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Hawthorn granted Smith a clearance to the Brocklesby Football Club, NSW where they finish 3rd in 1937 and 4th in 1938 in the Albury & District Football League with Smith as their captain / coach.

Smith was runner up Albury & DFL best and fairest award in 1937 and finished 3rd in the 1938 medal.

Smith played with Sandringham Football Club in 1939 and 1940, prior to enlisting with the AIF in World War Two.

Notes

Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 834. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
"1937 - At Hawthorn". The Argus. 28 April 1937. p. 17. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
"1938 - Brocklesby Eliminated". The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register (NSW). 26 August 1938. p. 8. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
"1937 - Ovens & Murray". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic). 18 August 1937. p. 16. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
"1938 - Best & Fairest Player". Border Morning Mail (Albury, NSW0. 15 August 1938. p. 2. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
"1939 - SANDRINGHAM SHOW PROMISE". The Herald. 3 April 1939. p. 22. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
"1940 - Football loss by Sandringham". The Herald. 24 January 1940. p. 19. Retrieved 21 January 2022.

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