Match Centre

Saturday April 2nd, 1955

Football League Division Three (South)

Swindon Town

1 - 1

1

M. Owen (2')

Brentford

Brentford

1

J. Taylor (53')
M. Owen (2')
(HT: 1-0)

Attendance: 5,924

J. Taylor (53')
F. Read
County Ground, Swindon

Lineups


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
RISEBOROUGH
8
McCLELLAND
9
OWEN
10
SAMPSON
11
BULL
1
NEWTON
2
BASSHAM
3
HORNE
4
BRISTOW
5
LATIMER
6
COOTE
7
HEATH
8
STOBBART
9
DUDLEY
10
TAYLOR
11
HARPER
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON
2George HUNT
3Peter HILTON
4Jim CROSS
5Garth HUDSON
6Gordon WILLIAMS
7Cyril RISEBOROUGH
8Johnny McCLELLAND
9Maurice OWEN
10Ray SAMPSON
11Mickey BULL
Manager/Head Coach
Maurice LINDLEY
Brentford
1Reg NEWTON1
2Alan BASSHAM2
3Ken HORNE3
4George BRISTOW4
5Frank LATIMER5
6Ken COOTE6
7Dennis HEATH7
8George STOBBART8
9Frank DUDLEY9
10Jeff TAYLOR10
11Tony HARPER11
Manager/Head Coach
Bill DODGIN

Newspaper Reports


Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday April 2nd, 1955:

Aldershot Aldershot 1-1 Coventry City Coventry City
Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 1-1 Walsall Walsall
Colchester United Colchester United 2-2 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient
Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 1-0 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton
Exeter City Exeter City 1-1 Gillingham Gillingham
Newport County Newport County 3-1 Reading Reading
Northampton Town Northampton Town 1-0 Torquay United Torquay United
Norwich City Norwich City 2-1 Millwall Millwall
Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 2-0 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town
Southend United Southend United 0-1 Southampton Southampton
Swindon Town Swindon 1-1 Brentford Brentford
Watford Watford 0-2 Bristol City Bristol City

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday April 2nd, 1955:

Pos. Team P Home Away TOTAL
W D L F A W D L F A W D L F A GA Pts
1 Bristol City Bristol City 39 15 2 2 53 19 11 5 4 35 23 26 7 6 88 42 2.10 59
2 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient 37 16 2 2 46 12 7 6 4 32 20 23 8 6 78 32 2.44 54
3 Southampton Southampton 38 15 4 1 44 16 7 4 7 19 23 22 8 8 63 39 1.62 52
4 Millwall Millwall 38 12 5 2 37 18 5 5 9 23 34 17 10 11 60 52 1.15 44
5 Gillingham Gillingham 37 10 6 3 34 24 7 4 7 30 32 17 10 10 64 56 1.14 44
6 Watford Watford 37 8 7 3 36 22 7 4 8 21 27 15 11 11 57 49 1.16 41
7 Norwich City Norwich City 37 12 3 4 35 18 4 4 10 16 27 16 7 14 51 45 1.13 39
8 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 37 12 4 3 42 22 2 7 9 17 33 14 11 12 59 55 1.07 39
9 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 37 7 6 5 31 24 5 8 6 22 25 12 14 11 53 49 1.08 38
10 Torquay United Torquay United 37 9 4 5 40 32 5 5 9 26 36 14 9 14 66 68 0.97 37
11 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 36 9 3 5 35 22 6 3 10 26 32 15 6 15 61 54 1.13 36
12 Northampton Town Northampton Town 37 10 4 4 33 23 5 2 12 23 46 15 6 16 56 69 0.81 36
13 Coventry City Coventry City 34 10 4 2 32 18 3 5 10 15 23 13 9 12 47 41 1.15 35
14 Reading Reading 37 6 7 6 26 21 5 4 9 29 39 11 11 15 55 60 0.92 33
15 Southend United Southend United 35 10 5 4 39 22 1 5 10 22 41 11 10 14 61 63 0.97 32
16 Brentford Brentford 36 7 5 6 33 32 3 7 8 31 38 10 12 14 64 70 0.91 32
17 Aldershot Aldershot 37 9 5 5 33 19 2 5 11 19 39 11 10 16 52 58 0.90 32
18 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 36 9 4 4 31 22 2 4 13 18 46 11 8 17 49 68 0.72 30
19 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 37 6 10 2 25 20 2 4 13 18 47 8 14 15 43 67 0.64 30
20 Exeter City Exeter City 37 7 7 5 25 25 2 5 11 12 34 9 12 16 37 59 0.63 30
21 Newport County Newport County 36 6 6 6 24 23 2 7 9 23 36 8 13 15 47 59 0.80 29
22 Swindon Town Swindon 35 7 7 3 23 15 1 5 12 13 33 8 12 15 36 48 0.75 28
23 Colchester United Colchester United 37 6 5 8 26 31 2 7 9 15 35 8 12 17 41 66 0.62 28
24 Walsall Walsall 36 4 6 7 31 28 1 6 12 23 45 5 12 19 54 73 0.74 22

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