fullname years death_date clubs position statsend originalteam birth_date article_title name
ern l. smedley 1928-29 30 november 1979 st kilda forward 1929 castlemaine 1 april 1905 bert smedley
 bert smedley
bert smedley

e. l. `` bert '' smedley -lrb- 1 april 1905 -- 30 november 1979 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played for st kilda in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- during the late 1920s .
smedley debuted in the 1928 vfl season and finished the year with exactly 50 goals , a tally which included six goal haul in just his second vfl game and a high of eight goals which he kicked in a win over north melbourne at arden street .
the castlemaine recruit was involved in a controversial incident in st kilda 's round 17 encounter with melbourne .
in the dying seconds , a pass from horrie mason had found smedley , who played on and was running into an open goals when the bell rang .
the umpire however had failed to hear it and only after smedley had kicked the goal , which put his team one point up , did the game end .
melbourne unsuccessfully appealed the result but the win was n't enough to put st kilda into the finals as they missed out through percentage .
