Match Centre

Saturday January 16th, 1897

Southern League Division One

Reading

0 - 0

0

Swindon Town

Swindon Town

0

(HT: 0-0)

Attendance: ~6,000

Lineups


1
CANNON
2
BACH
3
O'BRIEN
4
SPIERS
5
WATTS
6
MABLESON
7
HADLEY
8
REID
9
GORDON
10
CUNNINGHAM
11
HERRIN
1
COOK
2
SHUTT
3
MUNRO
4
HOPEWELL
5
ANDREWS
6
BOGGIE
7
RICHARDSON
8
HALLAM
9
PALMER
10
MURRAY
11
EDWARDS
Reading
1Mickey CANNON
2Phil BACH
3Joe O'BRIEN
4Dan SPIERS
5Ernie WATTS
6W. MABLESON
7Arthur HADLEY
8George REID
9Robbie GORDON
10Willie CUNNINGHAM
11 HERRIN
Swindon Town
1Jimmy COOK1
2Jack SHUTT2
3Jimmy MUNRO3
4Bob HOPEWELL4
5Alf 'Babe' ANDREWS5
6Alec BOGGIE6
7Georgie RICHARDSON7
8Jack HALLAM8
9George PALMER9
10Joey MURRAY10
11Albie EDWARDS11

Results


Southern League Division One results on Saturday January 16th, 1897:

Gravesend United Gravesend United 1-1 Southampton St. Mary's Southampton St. Mary's
Reading Reading 0-0 Swindon Town Swindon
Wolverton London and North Western Railway Wolverton LNWR 1-0 New Brompton New Brompton

Table


Southern League Division One table after matches on Saturday January 16th, 1897:

Pos. Team P Home Away TOTAL
W D L F A W D L F A W D L F A GA Pts
1 Southampton St. Mary's Southampton St. Mary's 10 5 0 0 29 7 4 1 0 7 2 9 1 0 36 9 4 19
2 Millwall Athletic Millwall Athletic 10 3 1 1 16 6 4 1 0 19 7 7 2 1 35 13 2.69 16
3 Chatham Chatham 13 3 1 2 17 10 4 0 3 15 11 7 1 5 32 21 1.52 15
4 Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham 12 4 0 1 13 7 2 1 4 13 11 6 1 5 26 18 1.44 13
5 Gravesend United Gravesend United 10 2 1 2 11 8 2 2 1 8 9 4 3 3 19 17 1.12 11
6 Reading Reading 9 3 1 1 7 10 1 0 3 4 15 4 1 4 11 25 0.44 9
7 Swindon Town Swindon 12 3 1 3 15 16 0 1 4 5 14 3 2 7 20 30 0.67 8
8 Sheppey United Sheppey United 8 1 1 2 9 7 2 0 2 8 11 3 1 4 17 18 0.94 7
9 Northfleet Northfleet 9 0 2 2 5 8 2 1 2 7 8 2 3 4 12 16 0.75 7
10 New Brompton New Brompton 9 2 0 3 9 8 0 1 3 8 15 2 1 6 17 23 0.74 5
11 Wolverton London and North Western Railway Wolverton LNWR 12 2 0 4 8 12 0 0 6 5 36 2 0 10 13 48 0.27 4