Doug Smith (sportscaster)

{{Short description|Canadian sports journalist (1920 or 1921 - 1979)}}

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|birth_date=1920 or 1921

|birth_place=Calgary, Alberta

|death_date={{Death date and given age|1979|4|9|58}}

|death_place=Montreal, Quebec

|occupation=broadcaster

|employer=CJAD

|awards=Foster Hewitt Memorial Award (1985)

|years_active=1940s–1970s

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Doug Smith (1920 or 1921 – April 9, 1979) was a Canadian radio sportscaster who covered the Montreal Maroons and then Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League in the 1930s and '40s, and later the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League, and golf. Smith was born in Calgary but moved to Montreal in 1944 from Trail, British Columbia where he started his career. In 1946, he covered the Brier's first radio broadcast on CBC Radio.The Brier, by Bob Weeks, pg 53 Smith switched to calling football full-time in 1952 from hockey after a minor heart attack, and was replaced by Danny Gallivan.{{cite news|title=Gallivan retiring from mike|page=54|date=May 31, 1984|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19840531&id=FqNjAAAAIBAJ&pg=1455,5140985&hl=en|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen}} He also organized international golf matches, including the World Golfer of the Year in 1965. He later moved to Florida, but returned to broadcast Alouettes games in 1973.{{cite news|title=Doug Smith's return|last=MacDonald|first=L. Ian|date=April 30, 1973|page=43|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19730430&id=MQwyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1143,8487181&hl=en|newspaper=Montreal Gazette}} Smith died in 1979 after a long illness in hospital in Montreal.{{cite news|title=Radioman Doug Smith dies at 58|date=April 10, 1979|page=74|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19790410&id=En4xAAAAIBAJ&pg=7086,1918921&hl=en}} He received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award and induction into the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1983, he was named to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.cfhof.ca/members/doug-smith/ | work=Canadian Football Hall of Fame |title=Doug Smith |access-date=2015-07-20}}