[1] He was not selected to play in the 1882 final and no match took place in 1884 – Queen's Park were awarded the trophy after Vale of Leven failed to appear.
In 1884 Smith was part of the Queen's Park team that reached the FA Cup Final, losing 2–1 to Blackburn Rovers.
[4][5] Smith earned ten caps in total for the Scotland national football team, scoring 10 goals.
[6] In what proved to be his final appearance before being banished by the governing body, he scored the only goal of the match as Scotland defeated England to secure the 1883–84 British Home Championship (the first edition of the competition).
In 1888 he was selected as a member of the British and Irish Lions team to tour New Zealand and Australia (this squad contained few full internationals as the national bodies perceived it akin to a professional enterprise and refused to sanction it).