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')
L. Callaghan
County Ground, Swindon

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'
Manager/Head Coach
Board of DIRECTORS
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
Manager/Head Coach
Walter ROWLEY

Newspaper Reports


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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