Match Centre

Saturday April 21st, 1956

Football League Division Three (South)

Swindon Town

0 - 1

0

Brentford

Brentford

1

R. Peplow (60')
(HT: 0-0)

Attendance: 5,790

R. Peplow (60')

Lineups


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
FOX
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
GIBSON
8
AGAR
9
OWEN
10
RICHARDS
11
EDWARDS
1
CAKEBREAD
2
LOWDEN
3
TICKRIDGE
4
BRISTOW
5
BRAGG
6
COOTE
7
GOUNDRY
8
RAINFORD
9
TAYLOR
10
PEPLOW
11
TOWERS
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON
2George HUNT
3Geoff FOX
4Jim CROSS
5Garth HUDSON
6Gordon WILLIAMS
7Dave GIBSON
8Roy AGAR
9Maurice OWEN
10John RICHARDS
11Bob EDWARDS
Brentford
1Gerry CAKEBREAD1
2George LOWDEN2
3Sid TICKRIDGE3
4George BRISTOW4
5Wally BRAGG5
6Ken COOTE6
7Bill GOUNDRY7
8Johnny RAINFORD8
9Jeff TAYLOR9
10Ron PEPLOW10
11Jim TOWERS11

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Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday April 21st, 1956:

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

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday April 21st, 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 Leyton Orient Leyton Orient 42 17 3 1 73 17 11 5 5 29 21 28 8 6 102 38 2.68 64
2 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 44 19 2 1 70 14 9 5 8 38 32 28 7 9 108 46 2.35 63
3 Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 43 15 6 1 57 27 8 7 6 44 30 23 13 7 101 57 1.77 59
4 Norwich City Norwich City 43 15 4 3 56 29 4 9 8 28 47 19 13 11 84 76 1.11 51
5 Southend United Southend United 42 15 4 2 55 22 5 6 10 29 49 20 10 12 84 71 1.18 50
6 Torquay United Torquay United 43 10 10 2 43 21 8 2 11 33 37 18 12 13 76 58 1.31 48
7 Coventry City Coventry City 44 16 3 3 54 20 4 4 14 18 39 20 7 17 72 59 1.22 47
8 Brentford Brentford 43 11 7 4 39 29 6 6 9 25 35 17 13 13 64 64 1 47
9 Colchester United Colchester United 44 13 4 5 53 35 4 7 11 19 42 17 11 16 72 77 0.94 45
10 Northampton Town Northampton Town 44 13 3 6 39 27 6 4 12 21 41 19 7 18 60 68 0.88 45
11 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 43 12 6 4 36 13 5 4 12 21 35 17 10 16 57 48 1.19 44
12 Gillingham Gillingham 43 10 3 8 34 26 7 7 8 30 41 17 10 16 64 67 0.96 44
13 Southampton Southampton 45 13 6 4 60 30 4 2 16 28 50 17 8 20 88 80 1.10 42
14 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 43 11 7 2 43 19 5 3 15 22 45 16 10 17 65 64 1.02 42
15 Aldershot Aldershot 44 9 8 5 35 32 3 7 12 34 52 12 15 17 69 84 0.82 39
16 Newport County Newport County 44 12 2 9 32 26 3 7 11 26 47 15 9 20 58 73 0.79 39
17 Reading Reading 44 10 2 10 39 35 5 6 11 30 42 15 8 21 69 77 0.90 38
18 Watford Watford 44 8 5 9 31 37 5 6 11 21 45 13 11 20 52 82 0.63 37
19 Walsall Walsall 43 12 5 3 37 23 2 3 18 25 56 14 8 21 62 79 0.78 36
20 Exeter City Exeter City 44 9 6 7 37 29 4 4 14 17 46 13 10 21 54 75 0.72 36
21 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 44 9 7 6 41 30 3 4 15 19 54 12 11 21 60 84 0.71 35
22 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 43 6 3 13 26 32 5 7 9 27 45 11 10 22 53 77 0.69 32
23 Millwall Millwall 42 10 4 6 45 31 2 2 18 26 67 12 6 24 71 98 0.72 30
24 Swindon Town Swindon 44 4 10 8 18 21 4 3 15 15 55 8 13 23 33 76 0.43 29

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