Billy Smith

Club Appearances: 234

Club Debut Year: 1961

Club Final Year: 1977

Position: Halfback

Club Points: 161

Club Tries: 30

Club Field Goals: 44

Representative Honours:

  • NSW v Qld: 15
  • NSW v Int: 2
  • Australia: 26
Appearances breakdown:

  • St George: 234
Points breakdown:

  • St George: 161

Partnered Reg Gasnier in the centres in three successive Grand Final victories (1963–65), before establishing himself as Australia’s best halfback of the late ’60s. First played halfback regularly for Saints in 1964, doing so well he was quickly picked in that position for NSW and Australia. Was the Kangaroo half in all his 26 Tests between 1964 and 1970. Was Australian vice-captain at the 1970 World Cup (captaining his country in one Test), and won the Harry Sunderland Medal as the best Australian player in the 1966 Ashes series and the following year’s Tests against New Zealand. For St George, played a record 296 grade games, 234 of them in first grade. His combination with Graeme Langlands in 1971, to get Saints to the Grand Final against Souths, was one of the finest two-man performances in Dragons history

Played a total of 234 games for St George