Match Centre

Saturday April 17th, 1954

Football League Division Three (South)

Swindon Town

0 - 1

0

Brighton and Hove Albion

Brighton and Hove Albion

1

B. Moore (29')
(HT: 0-1)

Attendance: 12,319

B. Moore (29')
R.J. Burgess
County Ground, Swindon

Lineups


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
PAGE
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
JOHNSTON
7
BULL
8
ONSLOW
9
JOHNSON
10
SAMPSON
11
BEARDS
1
GILL
2
FOX
3
LANGLEY
4
BURTENSHAW
5
SOUTH
6
WILSON
7
GORDON
8
SIRREL
9
MOORE
10
LEADBETTER
11
HOWARD
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON
2George HUNT
3Mick PAGE
4Jim CROSS
5Garth HUDSON
6Jimmy JOHNSTON
7Mickey BULL
8Roy ONSLOW
9Roy JOHNSON
10Ray SAMPSON
11Alan BEARDS
Manager/Head Coach
Maurice LINDLEY
Brighton and Hove Albion
1Eric GILL1
2Reg FOX2
3Jimmy LANGLEY3
4Steve BURTENSHAW4
5Alex SOUTH5
6Glen WILSON6
7Denis GORDON7
8Jimmy SIRREL8
9Bernard MOORE9
10Jimmy LEADBETTER10
11Frankie HOWARD11
Manager/Head Coach
Billy LANE

Newspaper Reports


Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday April 17th, 1954:

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

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday April 17th, 1954:

Pos. Team P Home Away TOTAL
W D L F A W D L F A W D L F A GA Pts
1 Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 42 13 5 3 43 18 11 4 6 32 30 24 9 9 75 48 1.56 57
2 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 42 16 2 3 54 30 9 5 7 27 26 25 7 10 81 56 1.45 57
3 Bristol City Bristol City 42 15 3 2 52 15 7 3 12 29 45 22 6 14 81 60 1.35 50
4 Watford Watford 41 15 3 3 49 20 5 6 9 30 41 20 9 12 79 61 1.30 49
5 Southampton Southampton 41 16 4 1 48 20 5 1 14 23 37 21 5 15 71 57 1.25 47
6 Northampton Town Northampton Town 41 16 4 1 58 18 2 6 12 17 31 18 10 13 75 49 1.53 46
7 Gillingham Gillingham 43 13 3 6 34 20 5 6 10 22 40 18 9 16 56 60 0.93 45
8 Exeter City Exeter City 43 10 2 9 36 21 8 6 8 28 32 18 8 17 64 53 1.21 44
9 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient 41 13 4 3 44 23 4 6 11 29 42 17 10 14 73 65 1.12 44
10 Reading Reading 43 12 3 6 50 31 6 5 11 28 39 18 8 17 78 70 1.11 44
11 Norwich City Norwich City 40 10 5 5 34 24 7 5 8 30 35 17 10 13 64 59 1.08 44
12 Millwall Millwall 41 14 2 5 41 24 4 6 10 25 44 18 8 15 66 68 0.97 44
13 Torquay United Torquay United 43 9 9 3 44 30 7 2 13 32 51 16 11 16 76 81 0.94 43
14 Southend United Southend United 43 15 2 5 46 21 2 5 14 22 47 17 7 19 68 68 1 41
15 Newport County Newport County 42 14 3 4 40 25 4 2 15 16 50 18 5 19 56 75 0.75 41
16 Coventry City Coventry City 42 11 5 4 30 14 4 4 14 24 39 15 9 18 54 53 1.02 39
17 Swindon Town Swindon 43 13 4 5 48 21 2 5 14 18 44 15 9 19 66 65 1.02 39
18 Aldershot Aldershot 43 10 5 7 41 30 5 3 13 26 53 15 8 20 67 83 0.81 38
19 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 43 11 5 5 39 28 3 5 14 17 53 14 10 19 56 81 0.69 38
20 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 43 11 4 6 42 24 4 3 15 20 42 15 7 21 62 66 0.94 37
21 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 42 10 8 3 42 32 2 4 15 16 37 12 12 18 58 69 0.84 36
22 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 42 8 5 8 27 23 5 5 11 25 40 13 10 19 52 63 0.83 36
23 Colchester United Colchester United 41 7 7 8 35 28 3 1 15 12 41 10 8 23 47 69 0.68 28
24 Walsall Walsall 43 7 4 10 19 26 1 3 18 18 57 8 7 28 37 83 0.45 23