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

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

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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