Match Centre

Saturday October 3rd, 1959

Football League Division Three

Swindon Town

1 - 0

1

D. Layne (39' pen)

Newport County

Newport County

0

D. Layne (39' pen)
(HT: 1-0)

Attendance: 14,493

W.G. Warnke
County Ground, Swindon

Lineups


1
BURTON
2
CHAMBERLAIN
3
BINGLEY
4
MORGAN
5
MELLOR
6
WOODRUFF
7
DARCY
8
EDWARDS
9
RICHARDS
10
GAULD
11
LAYNE
1
WEARE
2
BIRD
3
SHERWOOD
4
RIGGS
5
BURTON
6
JONES
7
FRY
8
HERRITY
9
McPHERSON
10
MEYER
11
McSEVENEY
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON
2Peter CHAMBERLAIN
3Walter BINGLEY61'
4Keith MORGAN
5Ken MELLOR
6Bobby WOODRUFF
7Arnold DARCY
8Bob EDWARDS
9John RICHARDS
10Jimmy GAULD
11David LAYNE
Manager/Head Coach
Bert HEAD
Newport County
1Len WEARE1
2Johnny BIRD2
3Alf SHERWOOD3
4Les RIGGS4
5Ollie BURTON5
6Bryn JONES6
7Keith FRY7
61' 8Billy HERRITY8 61'
9Ken McPHERSON9
10Barrie MEYER10
11John McSEVENEY11
Manager/Head Coach
Billy LUCAS

Newspaper Reports


Results


Football League Division Three results on Saturday October 3rd, 1959:

Bradford City Bradford 1-0 Tranmere Rovers Tranmere Rovers
Chesterfield Chesterfield 4-1 Barnsley Barnsley
Coventry City Coventry City 4-0 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth
Grimsby Town Grimsby Town 1-3 Brentford Brentford
Norwich City Norwich City 3-2 Colchester United Colchester United
Port Vale Port Vale 3-1 Southend United Southend United
Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 2-1 Wrexham Wrexham
Reading Reading 1-1 Halifax Town Halifax Town
Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 6-3 Mansfield Town Mansfield Town
Southampton Southampton 0-2 Bury Bury
Swindon Town Swindon 1-0 Newport County Newport County
York City York City 3-0 Accrington Stanley Accrington

Table


Football League Division Three table after matches on Saturday October 3rd, 1959:

Pos. Team P Home Away TOTAL
W D L F A W D L F A W D L F A GA Pts
1 Halifax Town Halifax Town 13 5 1 0 12 6 3 3 1 8 6 8 4 1 20 12 1.67 20
2 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 13 5 2 0 12 2 3 1 2 12 6 8 3 2 24 8 3 19
3 Norwich City Norwich City 13 5 1 0 17 5 3 2 2 11 10 8 3 2 28 15 1.87 19
4 Swindon Town Swindon 13 5 2 0 16 8 3 0 3 9 10 8 2 3 25 18 1.39 18
5 Coventry City Coventry City 13 3 3 1 12 5 3 2 1 12 6 6 5 2 24 11 2.18 17
6 Southampton Southampton 13 5 1 1 24 16 1 3 2 11 12 6 4 3 35 28 1.25 16
7 Bury Bury 13 5 0 1 11 4 2 1 4 7 6 7 1 5 18 10 1.80 15
8 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 13 4 2 1 20 10 2 1 3 13 14 6 3 4 33 24 1.38 15
9 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 13 6 0 0 19 7 1 1 5 5 16 7 1 5 24 23 1.04 15
10 Newport County Newport County 13 5 0 1 15 9 1 3 3 5 11 6 3 4 20 20 1 15
11 Grimsby Town Grimsby Town 13 4 2 1 20 8 1 2 3 12 14 5 4 4 32 22 1.45 14
12 Barnsley Barnsley 13 3 0 3 9 8 2 3 2 10 9 5 3 5 19 17 1.12 13
13 York City York City 13 4 2 1 12 7 0 3 3 5 10 4 5 4 17 17 1 13
14 Bradford City Bradford 13 5 0 2 16 10 0 2 4 8 14 5 2 6 24 24 1 12
15 Brentford Brentford 13 2 3 1 12 10 2 1 4 11 13 4 4 5 23 23 1 12
16 Colchester United Colchester United 13 4 2 0 15 7 1 0 6 12 22 5 2 6 27 29 0.93 12
17 Tranmere Rovers Tranmere Rovers 13 4 2 1 20 7 0 1 5 3 11 4 3 6 23 18 1.28 11
18 Port Vale Port Vale 13 4 1 1 9 6 1 0 6 7 23 5 1 7 16 29 0.55 11
19 Reading Reading 13 2 2 3 14 12 0 2 4 12 18 2 4 7 26 30 0.87 8
20 Chesterfield Chesterfield 12 4 0 3 15 14 0 0 5 4 14 4 0 8 19 28 0.68 8
21 Southend United Southend United 13 3 0 3 9 14 0 2 5 6 17 3 2 8 15 31 0.48 8
22 Accrington Stanley Accrington 13 1 3 2 7 9 1 0 6 7 26 2 3 8 14 35 0.40 7
23 Wrexham Wrexham 12 2 1 3 8 9 0 1 5 7 20 2 2 8 15 29 0.52 6
24 Mansfield Town Mansfield Town 13 0 4 2 8 13 1 0 6 9 24 1 4 8 17 37 0.46 6

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