STATISTICS & HISTORY
Dick Smyth grew up in the Far Rockaway Beach neighborhood of New York City. As a teenager, he joined a local team, the Big Atlantics, where he captured the attention of Dick Schmeelk, a famed pro star. Schmeelk recruited him to play for the New York Nationals, a professional basketball team that made a series of historic barnstorming trips to the mid-west. Smyth never became a star player, but because he he was hard-working and fundamentally sound, he enjoyed a long career. Smythe appeared on the roster of over thirty teams during his fifteen seasons of professional basketball.
| DICK SMYTH | Height: | 6:00 | Weight: | 165 | College: | None | |||||
| Richard Joseph Smyth | Born: Mar 17, 1895 | Died: Sep 11, 1967 | Hometown: | Rockaway Beach, NY | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1912-13 | Far Rockaway Beach Big Atlantics | Indep | |||||||||
| 1912-13 | New York York Nationals | Indep | |||||||||
| 1913-14 | Brooklyn Kirkman AA | Indep | |||||||||
| 1913-14 | Kingston | NYSL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| 1914-15 | New York Nationals | Indep | |||||||||
| 1915-16 | South Philadelphia De Neri | EBL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | |
| 1915-16 | Elizabeth–North Hudson–Brooklyn | IBL | 24 | 36 | 35 | 107 | 4.5 | ||||
| 1915-16 | Newark Nationals | ECBL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | ||||
| 1916-17 | Hazleton | PSL | 38 | 70 | 49 | 15 | 189 | 5.0 | |||
| 1917-18 | Hazelton–Plymouth | PSL | 42 | 80 | 58 | 10 | 218 | 5.2 | |||
| 1918-19 | Brooklyn Morse Dry Dock | Indep | |||||||||
| 1919-20 | Plymouth | PSL | 18 | 34 | 36 | 4 | 104 | 5.8 | |||
| 1919-20 | Brooklyn | IBL | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | ||||
| 1919-20 | Turners Falls | IL | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 8.0 | ||||
| 1919-20 | New York Lyceum | Indep | |||||||||
| 1919-20 | Brookln Van & Schenck | Imdep | |||||||||
| 1919-20 | Brooklyn Knights of St. Anthony | Indrep | |||||||||
| 1920-21 | Amsterdam | NYSL | 13 | 13 | 13 | 39 | 3.0 | ||||
| 1920-21 | Wilkes-Barre | PSL | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 7.0 | |||
| 1920-21 | 21Hartford/Turners Falls–Westfield | IL | 13 | 26 | 18 | 70 | 5.4 | ||||
| 1920-21 | Brooklyn Pros | Indep | |||||||||
| 1920-21 | New York Nationals | Indep | |||||||||
| 1920-21 | Brooklyn Arcadians | ||||||||||
| 1921-22 | New York MacDowell | MBL | 19 | 50 | 32 | 132 | 6.9 | ||||
| 1921-22 | Amsterdam | NYSL | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1.3 | ||||
| 1921-22 | New York | EBL | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | .333 | 3 | 12 | 4.0 | |
| 1921-22 | Holyoke | IL | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3.0 | ||||
| 1921-22 | Paterson–Greenpoint–Brooklyn Dodgers –New York McDowell | MBL | 19 | 50 | 32 | 132 | 6. | ||||
| 1922-23 | Greenfield | IL | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | ||||
| 1922-23 | Brooklyn Knights of St. Anthony | Indep | |||||||||
| 1923-24 | Greenpoint | MBL | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1.3 | ||||
| 1923-24 | Amsterdam | NYSL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 1924-25 | Paterson | MBL | 20 | 22 | 18 | 62 | 3.1 | ||||
| 1924-25 | Tamaqua | AnBL | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | ||||
| 1925-26 | Newark–Paterson | MBL | 7 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 2.7 | ||||
| 1925-26 | Trenton | EBL | 13 | 27 | 0 | 54 | 4.2 | ||||
| 1925-26 | Lou Gehrig All Stars | Indep | |||||||||
| 1926-27 | Ridgewood*Orange | NLN | 7 | 11 | 5 | 27 | 3.9 | ||||
| 1926-27 | Brooklyn–Washington | ABL | 17 | 17 | 17 | 51 | 3.0 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 294 | 476 | 356 | 1308 | 4.4 | ||||||