Alby Smedts

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Alby Smedts
Personal information
Full name Albert Peter Smedts
Date of birth (1952-01-09) 9 January 1952 (age 72)
Original team(s) Narre Warren
Height 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Position(s) Defence
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1972–1975 Waverley (VFA)
1975–1976 North Albury (OMFL)
1976–1979 Footscray 51 (4)
1980–1981 St Kilda 10 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1981.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Albert Peter Smedts (born 9 January 1952) is a former Australian rules footballer who initially played for Narre Warren, then with Waverley in the VFA from 1972 to 1974.

Smedts played with North Albury in 1975 and 1976, kicking 15 goals, and featured in North Albury's best players in their 1975 Ovens & Murray Football League grand final loss to Wangaratta Rovers,[1] prior to playing with Footscray from late 1976 to 1979.

Smedts then played with the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1980 to 1981.[2]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "O&MFNL - 1975 Grand Final Details". Ovens & Murray FNL. OMFNL. 1975. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 825. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.

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