Match Centre

Saturday August 27th, 1955

Football League Division Three (South)

Swindon Town

2 - 1

2

M. Owen (6'), B. Edwards (16')

Shrewsbury Town

Shrewsbury Town

1

D. Price (8')
M. Owen (6'), B. Edwards (16')
(HT: 2-1)

Attendance: 6,671

D. Price (8')

Lineups


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
McSHANE
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
RISEBOROUGH
8
GIBSON
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
EDDS
1
McBRIDE
2
BANNISTER
3
PARR
4
WALLACE
5
MALONEY
6
SIMPSON
7
PRICE
8
O'DONNELL
9
WEIGH
10
RUSSELL
11
McCUE
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON
2George HUNT
3Peter HILTON
4Tony McSHANE
5Garth HUDSON
6Gordon WILLIAMS
7Cyril RISEBOROUGH
8Dave GIBSON
9Maurice OWEN
10Bob EDWARDS
11Ernie EDDS60'
Shrewsbury Town
1John McBRIDE1
2Jimmy BANNISTER2
3Jackie PARR3
4Joe WALLACE4
5Joe MALONEY5
6Alec SIMPSON6
7Derrick PRICE7
8Willie O'DONNELL8
9Ray WEIGH9
10Ray RUSSELL10
11Alec McCUE11

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Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday August 27th, 1955:

Aldershot Aldershot 1-1 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace
Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 0-0 Brentford Brentford
Colchester United Colchester United 3-6 Southend United Southend United
Gillingham Gillingham 3-0 Watford Watford
Leyton Orient Leyton Orient 1-1 Exeter City Exeter City
Millwall Millwall 4-0 Reading Reading
Newport County Newport County 2-1 Ipswich Town Ipswich Town
Northampton Town Northampton Town 3-0 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton
Norwich City Norwich City 1-0 Coventry City Coventry City
Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 4-0 Southampton Southampton
Swindon Town Swindon 2-1 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town
Torquay United Torquay United 3-2 Walsall Walsall

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday August 27th, 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 Northampton Town Northampton Town 3 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 4 2 3 0 0 7 2 3.50 6
2 Southend United Southend United 3 2 0 0 4 1 1 0 0 6 3 3 0 0 10 4 2.50 6
3 Aldershot Aldershot 3 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 5 0 2 1 0 7 1 7 5
4 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient 3 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 0 2 1 0 4 1 4 5
5 Torquay United Torquay United 3 1 1 0 4 3 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 6 3 2 5
6 Gillingham Gillingham 3 1 0 1 3 1 1 0 0 4 1 2 0 1 7 2 3.50 4
7 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 3 1 1 0 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 6 2 3 4
8 Millwall Millwall 3 2 0 0 6 0 0 0 1 2 4 2 0 1 8 4 2 4
9 Norwich City Norwich City 3 2 0 0 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 2 0 1 5 4 1.25 4
10 Watford Watford 3 2 0 0 6 3 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 1 6 6 1 4
11 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 3 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 1 4 4 1 3
12 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 3 1 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 4 4 1 3
13 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 3 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 2 2 5 1 0 2 7 5 1.40 2
14 Coventry City Coventry City 3 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 2 1 3 1 0 2 4 4 1 2
15 Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 3 1 0 1 4 4 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 2 5 6 0.83 2
16 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 3 0 0 1 2 3 0 2 0 2 2 0 2 1 4 5 0.80 2
17 Swindon Town Swindon 3 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 2 3 4 0.75 2
18 Southampton Southampton 3 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 2 8 1 0 2 4 9 0.44 2
19 Brentford Brentford 3 0 0 1 1 4 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 2 5 0.40 2
20 Exeter City Exeter City 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 2 1 1 3 0.33 2
21 Newport County Newport County 3 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 6 1 0 2 2 7 0.29 2
22 Colchester United Colchester United 3 0 0 1 3 6 0 1 1 1 3 0 1 2 4 9 0.44 1
23 Walsall Walsall 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 2 6 0 0 3 2 8 0.25 0
24 Reading Reading 3 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 3 0 10 0 0

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