Thomas Smith (Australian footballer)

Thomas Smith
Personal information
Full name	Thomas George Smith
Date of birth	1851
Place of birth	Woolwich, England
Date of death	December 1909 (age 60)[1]
Playing career
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1870–1876 1877–1881	Port Adelaide (Interclub) Port Adelaide (SAFA)	≤ 34 69[2]
Career highlights
3x Port Adelaide best and fairest (1877, 1878, 1879)

Thomas George Smith (1851 – December, 1909) was an Australian football player. He was a foundation player of the Port Adelaide Football Club in 1870 and was also an inaugural player in the club's first SAFA season. During the first three seasons of the SAFA, Thomas Smith won Port Adelaide's best and fairest award every year.

Outside of football Smith was a tailor who worked on Commercial Road Port Adelaide.^[3][4]

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