Match Centre

Saturday August 20th, 1955

Football League Division Three (South)

Southampton

2 - 1

2

T. Mulgrew (??'), J. Walker (??')

Swindon Town

Swindon Town

1

B. Edwards (??')
T. Mulgrew (??'), J. Walker (??')
(HT: 1-1)

Attendance: 17,773

B. Edwards (??')
E.W. Abbott
The Dell, Southampton

Lineups


1
KIERNAN
2
ELLERINGTON
3
TRAYNOR
4
McLAUGHLIN
5
WILKINS
6
ELLIOTT
7
BROWN
8
MULGREW
9
DAY
10
WALKER
11
HOSKINS
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
McSHANE
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
RISEBOROUGH
8
ONSLOW
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
EDDS
Southampton
1Fred KIERNAN
2Bill ELLERINGTON
3Tommy TRAYNOR
4Bobby McLAUGHLIN
5Len WILKINS
6Bryn ELLIOTT
7Peter BROWN
8Tommy MULGREW
9Eric DAY
10Johnny WALKER
11John HOSKINS
Manager/Head Coach
George ROUGHTON
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON1
2George HUNT2
3Peter HILTON3
4Tony McSHANE4
5Garth HUDSON5
6Gordon WILLIAMS6
7Cyril RISEBOROUGH7
8Roy ONSLOW8
9Maurice OWEN9
10Bob EDWARDS10
11Ernie EDDS11
Manager/Head Coach
Board of DIRECTORS

Newspaper Reports


Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday August 20th, 1955:

Brentford Brentford 1-4 Gillingham Gillingham
Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 1-1 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R.
Coventry City Coventry City 3-1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth
Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 2-3 Northampton Town Northampton Town
Exeter City Exeter City 0-0 Colchester United Colchester United
Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 0-2 Torquay United Torquay United
Reading Reading 0-5 Aldershot Aldershot
Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 5-0 Newport County Newport County
Southampton Southampton 2-1 Swindon Town Swindon
Southend United Southend United 3-1 Norwich City Norwich City
Walsall Walsall 0-2 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient
Watford Watford 4-2 Millwall Millwall

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday August 20th, 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 Gillingham Gillingham 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 1 0 0 4 1 4 2
2 Coventry City Coventry City 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 3 2
3 Southend United Southend United 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 3 2
4 Southampton Southampton 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 2 2
5 Watford Watford 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 2 2 2
6 Northampton Town Northampton Town 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 3 2 1.50 2
7 Aldershot Aldershot 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 2
8 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2
9 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 1 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 2
10 Torquay United Torquay United 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2
11 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1
12 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1
13 Colchester United Colchester United 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
14 Exeter City Exeter City 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
15 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.67 0
16 Millwall Millwall 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 1 2 4 0.50 0
17 Swindon Town Swindon 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 2 0.50 0
18 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 3 0.33 0
19 Norwich City Norwich City 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 3 0.33 0
20 Brentford Brentford 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 0.25 0
21 Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0
22 Newport County Newport County 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 1 0 5 0 0
23 Reading Reading 1 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0
24 Walsall Walsall 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0

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