Arthur Allan asks if it was true that Dundee legend Gordon Smith signed for Hibs after playing against them in a friendly.
Arthur also asks if Smith was born in Dundee due to him playing for a Dundee junior side at the time.
I don’t know why Edinburgh-born Smith spent much of his youth resident in Angus.
However, he was a junior player with Dundee North End when he played for a Dundee Junior Select side against a Hibs-Hearts Select side.
The juniors won the game at Beechwood Park 3-2 on April 14, 1941 — with Smith netting a hat-trick.
Hibs snapped him up after the game and he went on to become one of the legendary Famous Five at Easter Road alongside Bobby Johnstone, Lawrie Reilly, Willie Ormond and Eddie Turnbull.
He also played for Hearts after he left Easter Road.
Of course, Smith is better known in these parts as a member of the Dundee team which won the league in 1961-62 and reached the semi-finals of the European Cup the following season.
His other claim to fame is that he won the Scottish Division One title — the top league in this country at the time — with three different clubs, the aforementioned Edinburgh pair and the Dark Blues.
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