Match Centre

Saturday December 24th, 1955

Football League Division Three (South)

Shrewsbury Town

1 - 1

1

A. Tyrer (26')

Swindon Town

Swindon Town

1

J. Brennan (71')
A. Tyrer (26')
(HT: 1-0)

Attendance: 6,375

J. Brennan (71')
L. Callaghan
Gay Meadow, Shrewsbury

Lineups


1
CROSSLEY
2
BANNISTER
3
PARR
4
WALLACE
5
MALONEY
6
SIMPSON
7
LOUGHNANE
8
ARNOTT
9
TYRER
10
O'DONNELL
11
RUSSELL
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
FOX
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
McSHANE
7
GIBSON
8
MICKLEWRIGHT
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
BRENNAN
Shrewsbury Town
1Russell CROSSLEY
2Jimmy BANNISTER
3Jackie PARR
4Joe WALLACE
5Joe MALONEY
6Alec SIMPSON
7Brian LOUGHNANE
8John ARNOTT
9Arthur TYRER
10Willie O'DONNELL
11Ray RUSSELL
Manager/Head Coach
Walter ROWLEY
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON1
2George HUNT2
3Geoff FOX3
4Jim CROSS4
5Garth HUDSON5
6Tony McSHANE6
7Dave GIBSON7
8Andy MICKLEWRIGHT8
9Maurice OWEN9
10Bob EDWARDS10
11Jim BRENNAN11
Manager/Head Coach
Board of DIRECTORS

Newspaper Reports


Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday December 24th, 1955:

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

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday December 24th, 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 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient 22 9 2 0 39 4 5 3 3 12 9 14 5 3 51 13 3.92 33
2 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 23 10 1 0 39 4 3 4 5 19 18 13 5 5 58 22 2.64 31
3 Torquay United Torquay United 23 5 5 1 22 8 7 2 3 21 13 12 7 4 43 21 2.05 31
4 Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 23 8 3 1 33 18 4 4 3 22 17 12 7 4 55 35 1.57 31
5 Northampton Town Northampton Town 23 9 1 1 27 10 5 1 6 13 21 14 2 7 40 31 1.29 30
6 Norwich City Norwich City 23 9 2 0 33 10 3 3 6 16 33 12 5 6 49 43 1.14 29
7 Coventry City Coventry City 24 11 2 0 35 11 1 2 8 5 19 12 4 8 40 30 1.33 28
8 Southend United Southend United 23 10 1 1 32 11 3 1 7 20 34 13 2 8 52 45 1.16 28
9 Brentford Brentford 23 7 2 3 20 16 4 3 4 14 19 11 5 7 34 35 0.97 27
10 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 23 6 4 2 29 14 4 0 7 13 23 10 4 9 42 37 1.14 24
11 Gillingham Gillingham 23 6 2 4 20 14 4 2 5 16 18 10 4 9 36 32 1.13 24
12 Colchester United Colchester United 23 6 2 3 25 20 3 3 6 9 24 9 5 9 34 44 0.77 23
13 Southampton Southampton 23 8 2 1 31 11 1 2 9 11 30 9 4 10 42 41 1.02 22
14 Aldershot Aldershot 23 4 5 2 22 19 2 4 6 20 26 6 9 8 42 45 0.93 21
15 Newport County Newport County 24 6 1 5 17 14 2 4 6 17 28 8 5 11 34 42 0.81 21
16 Exeter City Exeter City 23 4 4 4 14 15 3 3 5 13 21 7 7 9 27 36 0.75 21
17 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 23 5 3 4 16 12 2 2 7 10 21 7 5 11 26 33 0.79 19
18 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 23 4 1 6 15 13 2 5 5 16 28 6 6 11 31 41 0.76 18
19 Watford Watford 23 5 2 5 22 22 1 4 6 6 23 6 6 11 28 45 0.62 18
20 Reading Reading 23 4 2 6 20 23 2 2 7 14 22 6 4 13 34 45 0.76 16
21 Millwall Millwall 22 6 2 3 24 11 0 1 10 13 40 6 3 13 37 51 0.73 15
22 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 23 4 3 4 18 16 0 4 8 9 27 4 7 12 27 43 0.63 15
23 Walsall Walsall 23 5 3 3 21 20 1 0 11 12 35 6 3 14 33 55 0.60 15
24 Swindon Town Swindon 23 2 5 4 11 12 1 1 10 7 36 3 6 14 18 48 0.38 12

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