Match Centre

Saturday January 14th, 1956

Football League Division Three (South)

Walsall

4 - 0

4

T. Richards (30'), F. Morris (60'), D. Walsh (63', 73')

Swindon Town

Swindon Town

0

T. Richards (30'), F. Morris (60'), D. Walsh (63', 73')
(HT: 1-0)

Attendance: 10,961

R.S.M. Rogers
Fellows Park, Walsall

Lineups


1
CHILVERS
2
HADDINGTON
3
GALLIER
4
DORMAN
5
McPHERSON
6
CROOK
7
MORRIS
8
WALSH
9
RICHARDS
10
HODGKISSON
11
TAYLOR
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
McSHANE
7
GIBSON
8
MICKLEWRIGHT
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
BRENNAN
Walsall
1Gordon CHILVERS
2Harry HADDINGTON
3Bill GALLIER
4Don DORMAN
5Albert McPHERSON
6Billy CROOK
7Fred MORRIS
8Dave WALSH
9Tony RICHARDS
10Ken HODGKISSON
11Doug TAYLOR
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON1
2George HUNT2
3Peter HILTON3
4Jim CROSS4
5Garth HUDSON5
6Tony McSHANE6
7Dave GIBSON7
8Andy MICKLEWRIGHT8
9Maurice OWEN9
10Bob EDWARDS10
11Jim BRENNAN11

Newspaper Reports


Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday January 14th, 1956:

Brentford Brentford 2-2 Colchester United Colchester United
Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 5-0 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace
Coventry City Coventry City 3-0 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient
Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 4-1 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R.
Millwall Millwall 5-0 Gillingham Gillingham
Reading Reading 0-2 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth
Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 1-1 Northampton Town Northampton Town
Southampton Southampton 3-1 Aldershot Aldershot
Southend United Southend United 6-0 Exeter City Exeter City
Torquay United Torquay United 1-1 Newport County Newport County
Walsall Walsall 4-0 Swindon Town Swindon
Watford Watford 1-1 Norwich City Norwich City

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday January 14th, 1956:

Pos. Team P Home Away TOTAL
W D L F A W D L F A W D L F A GA Pts
1 Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 28 11 3 1 41 20 5 5 3 26 20 16 8 4 67 40 1.68 40
2 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 27 12 1 0 48 5 4 4 6 22 19 16 5 6 70 24 2.92 37
3 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient 26 10 3 0 44 6 5 4 4 14 14 15 7 4 58 20 2.90 37
4 Torquay United Torquay United 27 7 6 1 29 12 7 2 4 23 19 14 8 5 52 31 1.68 36
5 Coventry City Coventry City 29 13 2 0 43 12 2 2 10 7 22 15 4 10 50 34 1.47 34
6 Northampton Town Northampton Town 27 10 1 2 31 14 5 3 6 16 24 15 4 8 47 38 1.24 34
7 Norwich City Norwich City 27 10 3 0 36 12 3 5 6 19 36 13 8 6 55 48 1.15 34
8 Southend United Southend United 27 11 2 1 40 13 4 1 8 23 39 15 3 9 63 52 1.21 33
9 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 28 7 5 2 32 16 4 2 8 15 26 11 7 10 47 42 1.12 29
10 Brentford Brentford 27 7 4 3 24 20 4 3 6 16 25 11 7 9 40 45 0.89 29
11 Gillingham Gillingham 28 7 2 5 24 17 4 4 6 20 27 11 6 11 44 44 1 28
12 Colchester United Colchester United 28 7 3 3 30 23 3 5 7 13 30 10 8 10 43 53 0.81 28
13 Southampton Southampton 28 10 3 1 41 15 1 2 11 14 36 11 5 12 55 51 1.08 27
14 Newport County Newport County 29 8 1 6 22 17 2 5 7 19 33 10 6 13 41 50 0.82 26
15 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 27 6 4 4 20 12 3 2 8 12 23 9 6 12 32 35 0.91 24
16 Exeter City Exeter City 27 5 4 4 16 15 3 4 7 14 30 8 8 11 30 45 0.67 24
17 Aldershot Aldershot 27 4 5 4 23 24 2 5 7 23 31 6 10 11 46 55 0.84 22
18 Watford Watford 27 5 4 5 25 25 2 4 7 9 28 7 8 12 34 53 0.64 22
19 Reading Reading 28 5 2 7 25 27 3 3 8 19 28 8 5 15 44 55 0.80 21
20 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 28 4 3 7 18 18 2 6 6 16 33 6 9 13 34 51 0.67 21
21 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 28 4 6 4 23 21 1 4 9 12 32 5 10 13 35 53 0.66 20
22 Walsall Walsall 27 7 3 3 26 20 1 0 13 13 39 8 3 16 39 59 0.66 19
23 Millwall Millwall 26 7 2 4 29 13 0 2 11 16 47 7 4 15 45 60 0.75 18
24 Swindon Town Swindon 27 2 6 5 11 13 2 1 11 9 40 4 7 16 20 53 0.38 15

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