At Cumberland he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha, praised for his athleticism along with M. O. Bridges.[3] Smith, M. O. Bridges, and M. L. Bridges helped lead Cumberland to a share of the 1903Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) title. Smith was selected All-Southern.[4] Cumberland coach A. L. Phillips said Smith was the "only man he ever saw who has reduced football to a science."[3] That year, Cumberland defeated Vanderbilt and tied coach John Heisman's Clemson Tigers football team at the end of the year in the game billed as the "SIAA championship game" in Montgomery, Alabama on Thanksgiving Day. Cumberland rushed out to an early 11 to 0 lead. Wiley Lee Umphlett in Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football writes, "During the first half, Clemson was never really in the game due mainly to formidable line play of the Bridges brothers–giants in their day at 6 feet 4 inches–and a big center named "Red" Smith, was all over the field backing up the Cumberland line on defense. Clemson had been outweighed before, but certainly not like this."[5]
^ abVerner M. Jones (1904). "The Editor's Desk". The Kappa Alpha Journal. 21 (5): 639.
^"Sadler Is Made Captain of All-Southern Team". Atlanta Constitution. November 29, 1903.
^Wiley Lee Umphlett (1992). Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football. p. 67. ISBN9780313284045.
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