Match Centre

Saturday December 14th, 1957

Football League Division Three (South)

Swindon Town

1 - 1

1

J. Richards (25')

Reading

Reading

1

R. Reeves (80' pen)
J. Richards (25')
(HT: 1-0)

Attendance: 14,418

R. Reeves (80' pen)
G.W. Pullin
County Ground, Swindon

Lineups


1
BURTON
2
NEAL
3
LEE
4
CLAYTON
5
HUDSON
6
OWEN
7
SKULL
8
RICHARDS
9
ROOST
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY
1
JONES
2
LAWRENCE
3
REEVES
4
ANDERTON
5
DAVIES
6
EVANS
7
WHEELER
8
WHITEHOUSE
9
DIXON
10
WALKER
11
HARRISON
Swindon Town
1Sam BURTON
2Johnny NEAL
3Jimmy LEE
4Lew CLAYTON
5Garth HUDSON
6Maurice OWEN
7Johnny SKULL
8John RICHARDS
9Bill ROOST
10Bob EDWARDS
11Arnold DARCY
Manager/Head Coach
Bert HEAD
Reading
1Dave JONES1
2David LAWRENCE2
3Ray REEVES3
4Sylvan ANDERTON4
5Bill DAVIES5
6Maurice EVANS6
7Jimmy WHEELER7
8Jimmy WHITEHOUSE8
9Tommy DIXON9
10Johnny WALKER10
11Peter HARRISON11
Manager/Head Coach
Harry JOHNSTON

Newspaper Reports


Results


Football League Division Three (South) results on Saturday December 14th, 1957:

Aldershot Aldershot 0-1 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town
Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 5-2 Colchester United Colchester United
Exeter City Exeter City 0-1 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace
Gillingham Gillingham 1-1 Watford Watford
Millwall Millwall 0-0 Northampton Town Northampton Town
Newport County Newport County 3-1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth
Plymouth Argyle Plymouth Argyle 4-0 Coventry City Coventry City
Port Vale Port Vale 2-1 Walsall Walsall
Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 1-1 Torquay United Torquay United
Southampton Southampton 7-3 Norwich City Norwich City
Southend United Southend United 0-0 Brentford Brentford
Swindon Town Swindon 1-1 Reading Reading

Table


Football League Division Three (South) table after matches on Saturday December 14th, 1957:

Pos. Team P Home Away TOTAL
W D L F A W D L F A W D L F A GA Pts
1 Swindon Town Swindon 23 8 3 0 26 6 3 4 5 16 19 11 7 5 42 25 1.68 29
2 Brighton and Hove Albion Brighton 21 6 2 3 25 16 7 0 3 20 18 13 2 6 45 34 1.32 28
3 Norwich City Norwich City 22 6 4 1 20 13 3 5 3 18 23 9 9 4 38 36 1.06 27
4 Brentford Brentford 21 6 3 1 21 10 5 1 5 18 18 11 4 6 39 28 1.39 26
5 Port Vale Port Vale 21 7 3 0 24 7 3 2 6 11 13 10 5 6 35 20 1.75 25
6 Reading Reading 21 6 3 2 23 9 3 4 3 13 12 9 7 5 36 21 1.71 25
7 Plymouth Argyle Plymouth Argyle 22 10 1 0 24 6 2 0 9 6 20 12 1 9 30 26 1.15 25
8 Newport County Newport County 21 5 4 1 15 9 3 4 4 16 21 8 8 5 31 30 1.03 24
9 Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town 22 6 3 3 14 13 3 3 4 12 18 9 6 7 26 31 0.84 24
10 Southampton Southampton 22 8 1 3 42 17 1 4 5 8 20 9 5 8 50 37 1.35 23
11 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 21 8 2 1 19 4 2 1 7 11 27 10 3 8 30 31 0.97 23
12 Colchester United Colchester United 23 6 2 2 17 10 2 5 6 17 34 8 7 8 34 44 0.77 23
13 Southend United Southend United 21 5 3 3 30 16 3 2 5 14 11 8 5 8 44 27 1.63 21
14 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Bournemouth 20 7 2 1 22 9 2 1 7 14 27 9 3 8 36 36 1 21
15 Watford Watford 23 5 4 3 20 15 1 5 5 10 16 6 9 8 30 31 0.97 21
16 Crystal Palace Crystal Palace 21 5 3 2 22 11 2 3 6 9 22 7 6 8 31 33 0.94 20
17 Millwall Millwall 21 4 3 4 22 15 4 0 6 11 19 8 3 10 33 34 0.97 19
18 Northampton Town Northampton Town 22 4 1 5 21 18 2 3 7 10 25 6 4 12 31 43 0.72 16
19 Aldershot Aldershot 21 3 1 6 11 14 3 3 5 14 23 6 4 11 25 37 0.68 16
20 Coventry City Coventry City 19 5 2 3 15 13 1 2 6 6 21 6 4 9 21 34 0.62 16
21 Walsall Walsall 19 4 3 3 15 13 1 2 6 10 19 5 5 9 25 32 0.78 15
22 Gillingham Gillingham 20 5 2 3 13 9 1 1 8 8 22 6 3 11 21 31 0.68 15
23 Torquay United Torquay United 21 4 4 2 14 13 0 3 8 5 17 4 7 10 19 30 0.63 15
24 Exeter City Exeter City 22 4 2 5 16 20 0 3 8 9 26 4 5 13 25 46 0.54 13

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