Bill Smith

William Smith...

with North Vancouver’s North Shore United FC, a Dominion of Canada Football Championship winner (Challenge Trophy in 1949)... a four-time Pacific Coast League winner (1943-44, 1948-49, 1950-51, 1962-63)... in Canada, he was an all-star selection both before (1946, 1950, 1951) and after (1961) a four-year stint in USA...

said Bob Harrison after the 1949 championship, Smith “played the best soccer of his (young) career in the final series”... as noted in a 1950 all-star program, “often described as ‘most underrated player in City soccer’; essentially an attacking half back”... wrote the Vancouver Province in 1950, Bill Smith is “an outstanding attacking half back; tremendous kick and accurate shot”... wrote Austin Delany in 1951, “overly dainty at times, but a good wing half”... as noted in a 1951 all-star program, a “strong attacking halfback; has the secret of timing in kicking a ball, which in spot of slight build gives him a kick that is the envy of players 20 or 30 pounds heavier than he is”...