Fred Goldsmith (Australian footballer)

Fred Goldsmith
Personal information
Date of birth (1932-08-20)20 August 1932
Date of death 13 April 2017(2017-04-13) (aged 84)
Original team(s) Spotswood (FDFL)
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Position(s) Full-back, full-forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1951–1959 South Melbourne 119 (107)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1959.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Fred Goldsmith (20 August 1932 – 13 April 2017)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Goldsmith as a seventeen year old in 1950, once kicked 29 goals in a match for Spotswood against Kingsville in the Footscray District Football League.[2] His club was zoned to South Melbourne.

  1. ^ "Vale Fred Goldsmith: Brownlow winner dies at 84". AFL.com.au. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Bulldogs who became Swans". Sporting Globe. No. 4240. Victoria, Australia. 24 June 1953. p. 4. Retrieved 27 March 2023 – via National Library of Australia.