His teams won NAIA football national championships in 1957 and 1961.

In 1944, Smith was working as assistant director of recreation at a Pratt & Whitney plant before he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve.

Smith went to the University of California, Berkeley in 1947, where he served as a graduate assistant for the football team under Pappy Waldorf and earned a master's degree in physical education.

[3] Smith died on January 25, 1979, at his home in Pittsburg, following a long illness.

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