Match Centre

Saturday August 20th, 1955

Football League Division Three (South)

Southampton

2 - 1

2

T. Mulgrew (??'), J. Walker (??')

Swindon Town

Swindon Town

1

B. Edwards (??')
T. Mulgrew (??'), J. Walker (??')
(HT: 1-1)

Attendance: 17,773

B. Edwards (??')
E.W. Abbott
The Dell, Southampton

Lineups


1
KIERNAN
2
ELLERINGTON
3
TRAYNOR
4
McLAUGHLIN
5
WILKINS
6
ELLIOTT
7
BROWN
8
MULGREW
9
DAY
10
WALKER
11
HOSKINS
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
McSHANE
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
RISEBOROUGH
8
ONSLOW
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
EDDS
Southampton
1Fred KIERNAN
2Bill ELLERINGTON
3Tommy TRAYNOR
4Bobby McLAUGHLIN
5Len WILKINS
6Bryn ELLIOTT
7Peter BROWN
8Tommy MULGREW
9Eric DAY
10Johnny WALKER
11John HOSKINS
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON1
2George HUNT2
3Peter HILTON3
4Tony McSHANE4
5Garth HUDSON5
6Gordon WILLIAMS6
7Cyril RISEBOROUGH7
8Roy ONSLOW8
9Maurice OWEN9
10Bob EDWARDS10
11Ernie EDDS11

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Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday August 20th, 1955:

Brentford Brentford 1-4 Gillingham Gillingham
Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 1-1 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R.
Coventry City Coventry City 3-1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth
Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 2-3 Northampton Town Northampton Town
Exeter City Exeter City 0-0 Colchester United Colchester United
Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 0-2 Torquay United Torquay United
Reading Reading 0-5 Aldershot Aldershot
Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 5-0 Newport County Newport County
Southampton Southampton 2-1 Swindon Town Swindon
Southend United Southend United 3-1 Norwich City Norwich City
Walsall Walsall 0-2 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient
Watford Watford 4-2 Millwall Millwall

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday August 20th, 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 Gillingham Gillingham 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 1 0 0 4 1 4 2
2 Coventry City Coventry City 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 3 2
3 Southend United Southend United 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 3 2
4 Southampton Southampton 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 2 2
5 Watford Watford 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 2 2 2
6 Northampton Town Northampton Town 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 3 2 1.50 2
7 Aldershot Aldershot 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 2
8 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2
9 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 1 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 2
10 Torquay United Torquay United 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2
11 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1
12 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1
13 Colchester United Colchester United 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
14 Exeter City Exeter City 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
15 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.67 0
16 Millwall Millwall 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 1 2 4 0.50 0
17 Swindon Town Swindon 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 2 0.50 0
18 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 3 0.33 0
19 Norwich City Norwich City 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 3 0.33 0
20 Brentford Brentford 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 0.25 0
21 Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0
22 Newport County Newport County 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 1 0 5 0 0
23 Reading Reading 1 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0
24 Walsall Walsall 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0

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