:M. O. Smith

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| name = M. O. Smith

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|9|1|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1935|10|13|1880|9|1|mf=y}}

| death_place = Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.

| alma_mater = Grinnell College

| coach_years1 = 1903

| coach_team1 = Doane

| overall_record = 2–1

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Milo Oscar Smith (September 1, 1880 – October 13, 1935) was an American football player and coach.

Smith played football as an end and quarterback at Grinnell College, and was remembered as "one of the greatest football stars at Grinnell."{{cite news|title=Interest Is Intense: High School Athletes See Big Boon For Athletics; Milo Smith to Have Entire Charge of Field and Track|newspaper=The Daily Times|date=July 15, 1909|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47049853/milo-smith/|via=Newspapers.com}} He also served as the coach of Grinnell's second team.

He served as the ninth head football coach at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska and he held that position for the 1903 season. His coaching record at Doane was 2–1.[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/naia/gpac/doane/coaching_records.php Doane College coaching records] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525204024/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/naia/gpac/doane/coaching_records.php |date=May 25, 2011}}

On July 7, 1905, Smith married Mary Ella Porterfield in Atlantic, Iowa.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2AwTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Milo+O+Smith%22+grinnell | title=The Grinnell Review| year=1905}} By 1905 the couple was living in Council Bluffs, where Smith worked for a clothing store.

In July 1909, Smith was hired as a history teacher, football coach, and athletic director at Rock Island High School in Rock Island, Illinois.{{cite news|title=New Teacher To Be Coach: Milo O. Smith of Council Bluffs Succeeds Warren T. Powell at High School|newspaper=The Argus|date=July 14, 1909|page=6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47049236/new-teacher-to-be-coach-milo-o-smith/|via=Newspapers.com}} However, he resigned one month later in order to take a position in business.{{cite news|title=Smith Not To Come To the High School|newspaper=The Daily Times|date=August 11, 1909|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47050042/smith-not-to-come-to-the-high-school/|via=Newspapers.com}}

Smith died in 1935 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.Standard Certificate of Death for Milo O. Smith, born September 1, 1880, died October 13, 1935. Ancestry.com. Iowa, Death Records, 1920-1940 [database on-line]. tate Historical Society of Iowa; Des Moines, Iowa; Iowa Death Records; Reference Number: 101821056.