Cecil Smith (polo)

[2] In 1924, he started playing polo while working for George Miller, a horse trader in Austin, Texas.

[2] He also played alongside Albert Buckman Wharton Jr. at his El Ranchito Polo Club on his Waggoner Ranch.

[3] He later played polo with Will Rogers, Darryl Zanuck, Walt Disney and Reginald Denny.

[1] (Quote from New York Times article dated Feb.14, 1999, "Then, starting in 1938, he began a string of 26 years, 25 consecutively (1938-62), in which he was a 10-goal player".)

[2] He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in Lake Worth, Florida, on April 6, 1990.