High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wallace Smith (born 1881 in Coventry, England; died July 1917 in Worksop, England) was an English footballer who played for six clubs during his career, including three league clubs.Smith was born in Coventry in 1881. He moved to Northamptonshire with his family when he was five-years-old. He returned to West Yorkshire when he started his playing with Rothwell Town, where he was their leading goal-scorer. He moved on to Kettering Town where he continued to find the net, scoring 23 goals in his third and final season. He moved on to Southern League side Northampton Town in 1904 for one season.