John W. Smith was a 19th-century

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Career

Smith joined

Burslem Port Vale Port Vale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in . Vale are the only English Football League club not to be named after a place; their name being a reference to the valley of ...

in June 1892 and made his debut at left-half in a 4–0 defeat at

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on 17 December 1892. He was a regular in the side from September 1893, but his career ground to halt on New Years Day 1894 as he injured an ankle in a 3–1 defeat at

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. He played few games from then until his release in the summer of 1895.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Jack Year of birth missing Year of death missing English men's footballers Men's association football wing halves Port Vale F.C. players English Football League players Place of birth missing