Doug Smith (1920 or 1921 – April 9, 1979) was a Canadian radio sportscaster who covered the

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and then

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of the

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in the 1930s and '40s, and later the

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of the

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, and

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. Smith was born in

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but moved to Montreal in 1944 from

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where he started his career. In 1946, he covered

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's first ever radio broadcast on

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. Smith switched to calling football full-time in 1952 from hockey after a minor heart attack, and was replaced by

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. He also organized international golf matches, including the World Golfer of the Year in 1965. He later moved to

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, but returned to broadcast Alouettes games in 1973. Smith died in 1979 after a long illness in hospital in Montreal. He received the

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and induction into the media section of the

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in 1985. In 1983, he was named to the

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