Match Centre

Saturday September 1st, 1956

Football League Division Three (South)

Swindon Town

1 - 2

1

J. Richards (25')

Shrewsbury Town

Shrewsbury Town

2

W. O'Donnell (27'), C. Whitaker (36')
J. Richards (25')
(HT: 1-2)

Attendance: 9,196

W. O'Donnell (27'), C. Whitaker (36')
E.T. Jennings
County Ground, Swindon

Lineups


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
FOX
4
McSHANE
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
RICHARDS
8
AGAR
9
OWEN
10
PEMBERY
11
MILLER
1
CROSSLEY
2
BANNISTER
3
HOBSON
4
WALLACE
5
MALONEY
6
SIMPSON
7
O'DONNELL
8
RODGERS
9
WEIGH
10
SHIELDS
11
WHITAKER
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON
2George HUNT
3Geoff FOX
4Tony McSHANE
5Garth HUDSON
6Gordon WILLIAMS
7John RICHARDS
8Roy AGAR
9Maurice OWEN
10Gordon PEMBERY
11Joe MILLER
Manager/Head Coach
Board of DIRECTORS
Shrewsbury Town
1Russell CROSSLEY1
2Jimmy BANNISTER2
3Norman HOBSON3
4Joe WALLACE4
5Joe MALONEY5
6Alec SIMPSON6
7Willie O'DONNELL7
8Arnold RODGERS8
9Ray WEIGH9
10Jimmy SHIELDS10
11Colin WHITAKER11
Manager/Head Coach
Walter ROWLEY

Newspaper Reports


Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday September 1st, 1956:

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

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday September 1st, 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 Norwich City Norwich City 5 3 0 0 4 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 2 0 4 1 4 8
2 Torquay United Torquay United 5 2 0 0 6 1 1 2 0 2 1 3 2 0 8 2 4 8
3 Coventry City Coventry City 5 3 0 0 5 1 0 2 0 2 2 3 2 0 7 3 2.33 8
4 Newport County Newport County 5 3 0 0 9 2 0 2 0 4 4 3 2 0 13 6 2.17 8
5 Brentford Brentford 5 2 0 1 9 7 2 0 0 5 1 4 0 1 14 8 1.75 8
6 Southampton Southampton 5 2 1 0 7 1 1 0 1 5 2 3 1 1 12 3 4 7
7 Reading Reading 5 2 1 0 4 2 1 0 1 6 3 3 1 1 10 5 2 7
8 Watford Watford 5 1 0 1 5 5 2 1 0 10 3 3 1 1 15 8 1.88 7
9 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 5 2 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 5 5 3 1 1 8 5 1.60 7
10 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 5 1 1 0 4 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 2 1 7 4 1.75 6
11 Colchester United Colchester United 5 1 2 0 7 6 1 0 1 4 3 2 2 1 11 9 1.22 6
12 Gillingham Gillingham 5 2 0 1 8 6 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 2 8 7 1.14 5
13 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 5 2 1 0 9 7 0 0 2 3 5 2 1 2 12 12 1 5
14 Millwall Millwall 5 1 1 1 4 4 1 0 1 2 2 2 1 2 6 6 1 5
15 Northampton Town Northampton Town 5 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 2 2 6 2 1 2 6 6 1 5
16 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 5 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 4 7 2 1 2 5 7 0.71 5
17 Aldershot Aldershot 5 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 5 9 1 1 3 5 11 0.45 3
18 Southend United Southend United 5 0 2 0 3 3 0 0 3 3 7 0 2 3 6 10 0.60 2
19 Swindon Town Swindon 5 0 0 3 3 7 1 0 1 5 7 1 0 4 8 14 0.57 2
20 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 5 0 1 1 3 5 0 1 2 3 7 0 2 3 6 12 0.50 2
21 Walsall Walsall 5 1 0 1 3 3 0 0 3 1 5 1 0 4 4 8 0.50 2
22 Ipswich Town Ipswich Town 5 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 3 8 1 0 4 4 10 0.40 2
23 Exeter City Exeter City 5 0 2 1 1 5 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 3 1 7 0.14 2
24 Plymouth Argyle Plymouth Argyle 5 0 0 2 1 8 0 0 3 2 11 0 0 5 3 19 0.16 0

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