Amateur career Smith was educated at
George Watson's College and played club rugby for both Watsonians and Kelso.
Provincial career Smith played for
South of Scotland District in the
1956–57 Scottish Inter-District Championship and
1957–58 Scottish Inter-District Championship.
International career Smith was capped eighteen times for Scotland between 1957 and 1961. He also took part in the
1959 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand, playing in four tests, two against Australia and two against New Zealand. While President of the SRU, in 1995, he was appointed a
CBE for his contribution to the sport of rugby. ==Death==