Professional Football Player. He played at the positions of linebacker, defensive end, and defensive tackle, for eight seasons (1972 to 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976 to 1979), in the Canadian Football League (or CFL) with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos, Ottawa Rough Riders, and the Toronto Argonauts. Born Robert Bruce Smith in Huntsville, Texas, he played collegiate football at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. After graduating from college, he relocated to Canada to play football professionally. He signed with the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats as a rookie and was later named Team Captain. With the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats, he was one of the members of the famed "Dirty Dozen" defense that won the 60th Grey Cup Championship Game in 1972. His coach at the time was Jerry Williams while his teammates included such greats as Ecomet Burley, Granville "Linny" Liggins, Tommy Joe Coffey, Mike Blum, Doug Dersch, Ken Ferguson, Gord Christian, Jerry Gantt, Gerry Sternberg, and Emery Hicks. The game which was played at the Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario, pitted the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats against the Canadian Football League's Saskatchewan Roughriders. The Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats won the game 13-1. He then played one year with the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos and one year with the Canadian Football League's Ottawa Rough Riders before joining the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts in 1976. He played with the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts in 44 games until his retirement in 1979. After leaving football, he became a salesman with Canada Trust. He was a top seller in five of his six years there before ultimately establishing his own real estate firm, Bruce Smith Realty, in 1987. A born-again Christian, he became an ordained chaplain at King Bay Chaplaincy in 1999. He also worked with Upper Canada College’s Chaplain Service. He spent a lot of time as a public speaker and was also a children's book author. His last years were spent helping the underprivileged youth of Toronto, Ontario. He died following a battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 63. His memoir, "Our Father: The Prodigal Son Returns," was posthumously published shortly after his death in 2013.