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{{Short description|American football player (1911–1941)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}

{{other people||Ben Smith (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Ben Smith

| image = Ben Smith 1935.jpg

| caption =

| number = 38

| position = End

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|6|16|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Haleyville, Alabama, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|2|23|1911|6|16|mf=y}}

| death_place = Mobile Bay, Alabama, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 3

| weight_lb = 208

| high_school = Haleyville (AL)

| college = Alabama

| draftyear =

| draftround =

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| pastteams =

• Green Bay Packers (1933)
• Pittsburgh Pirates (1934–1935)
• Pittsburgh Americans (1936)
• Washington Redskins (1937)

| highlights =

• NFL champion (1937)

}}

Benjamin Harris Smith Jr. (June 16, 1911 – February 23, 1941) was an American football end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Green Bay Packers, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Alabama.

Smith worked as an assistant coach for his brother, Earle Smith, at Spring Hill College in 1938.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/160979307/|title=Smith to Assist Brother at Spring Hill|work=The Tennessean|date=July 8, 1938|access-date=January 31, 2018}} He disappeared on February 23, 1941, while on a fishing trip. His body was discovered 22 days later, on March 17, floating in the Tensaw River near Mobile, Alabama.{{cite news |author= |title=Smith's Body Found, Funeral In Mobile |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59716905/the-advertiser-journal/ |newspaper=The Advertiser-Journal |location=Haleyville, Alabama |date=March 20, 1941 |page=1 |access-date=September 21, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}