Match Centre

Saturday April 16th, 1955

Football League Division Three (South)

Swindon Town

1 - 0

1

A. Hope (87')

Southampton

Southampton

0

A. Hope (87')
(HT: 0-0)

Attendance: 12,924

B.M. Griffiths
County Ground, Swindon

Lineups


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
GIBSON
8
ONSLOW
9
WILLIAMSON
10
GEMMELL
11
HOPE
1
KIERNAN
2
ELLERINGTON
3
TRAYNOR
4
McLAUGHLIN
5
WILKINS
6
ELLIOTT
7
FLOOD
8
MULGREW
9
DAY
10
WALKER
11
HOSKINS
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON
2George HUNT
3Peter HILTON
4Jim CROSS
5Garth HUDSON
6Gordon WILLIAMS
7Dave GIBSON
8Roy ONSLOW
9Stewart WILLIAMSON
10Matt GEMMELL
11Alex HOPE
Manager/Head Coach
Maurice LINDLEY
Southampton
42' 1Fred KIERNAN1 42'
2Bill ELLERINGTON2
3Tommy TRAYNOR3
4Bobby McLAUGHLIN4
42' 5Len WILKINS5 42'
6Bryn ELLIOTT6
7John FLOOD7
8Tommy MULGREW8
9Eric DAY9
10Johnny WALKER10
11John HOSKINS11
Manager/Head Coach
George ROUGHTON

Newspaper Reports


Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday April 16th, 1955:

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

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday April 16th, 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 Bristol City Bristol City 42 16 3 2 59 22 11 6 4 36 24 27 9 6 95 46 2.07 63
2 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient 41 16 2 4 47 15 8 6 5 34 23 24 8 9 81 38 2.13 56
3 Southampton Southampton 42 16 5 1 47 17 7 4 9 20 26 23 9 10 67 43 1.56 55
4 Gillingham Gillingham 41 11 7 3 37 26 8 4 8 32 34 19 11 11 69 60 1.15 49
5 Millwall Millwall 42 13 5 3 41 23 5 5 11 24 41 18 10 14 65 64 1.02 46
6 Watford Watford 41 9 8 3 38 23 7 5 9 23 31 16 13 12 61 54 1.13 45
7 Norwich City Norwich City 41 13 3 5 38 21 5 4 11 19 30 18 7 16 57 51 1.12 43
8 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 40 11 3 5 38 23 6 5 10 27 33 17 8 15 65 56 1.16 42
9 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 41 13 5 3 44 23 2 7 11 19 39 15 12 14 63 62 1.02 42
10 Coventry City Coventry City 39 13 4 2 40 21 3 5 12 16 27 16 9 14 56 48 1.17 41
11 Torquay United Torquay United 41 9 6 5 43 35 6 5 10 30 39 15 11 15 73 74 0.99 41
12 Brentford Brentford 40 9 5 6 38 32 5 7 8 34 39 14 12 14 72 71 1.01 40
13 Northampton Town Northampton Town 42 11 4 5 39 25 6 2 14 26 54 17 6 19 65 79 0.82 40
14 Aldershot Aldershot 41 11 5 5 40 21 3 6 11 21 40 14 11 16 61 61 1 39
15 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 41 7 6 7 31 27 5 9 7 24 32 12 15 14 55 59 0.93 39
16 Reading Reading 40 7 8 6 29 23 6 4 9 31 39 13 12 15 60 62 0.97 38
17 Southend United Southend United 39 11 5 5 44 26 2 5 11 26 44 13 10 16 70 70 1 36
18 Newport County Newport County 41 7 7 6 27 25 3 7 11 28 43 10 14 17 55 68 0.81 34
19 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 41 8 10 2 28 21 2 4 15 18 51 10 14 17 46 72 0.64 34
20 Exeter City Exeter City 41 8 7 6 26 26 2 6 12 14 38 10 13 18 40 64 0.63 33
21 Swindon Town Swindon 40 8 7 4 25 18 1 7 13 16 37 9 14 17 41 55 0.75 32
22 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 39 10 4 4 34 22 2 4 15 19 51 12 8 19 53 73 0.73 32
23 Colchester United Colchester United 41 7 5 9 28 33 2 7 11 18 41 9 12 20 46 74 0.62 30
24 Walsall Walsall 41 7 6 7 43 31 1 6 14 24 48 8 12 21 67 79 0.85 28

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