Fred L. Smith (coach)

Fred L. Smith
Biographical details
Alma materPrinceton University (1897)
Playing career
Football
1894–1896Princeton
Position(s)End, halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1897–1898Illinois (assistant)
1899Princeton (backfield)
1900Illinois
1901Fordham
1904Fordham
1906–1907Fordham
Baseball
1901–1905Fordham
Head coaching record
Overall24–9–5 (football)
213–66 (baseball)

Frederick Lorenzo Smith was an American college football and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Illinois in 1900 and at Fordham University in 1901, 1904, and from 1906 to 1907, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 24–9–5. Smith was also the head baseball coach at Fordham from 1901 to 1905, tallying a mark of 213–66.

Smith played football at Princeton University as a end from 1894 to 1895 and as a halfback in 1896. He went to Illinois in 1897 as an assistant football coach under George Huff. Smith returned to Princeton in 1899 to coach the backs on the football team.