Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, December 25, 1937

Reading Swindon Town
P.Simpson (??'), D.Watkin (??')
 HT: 2-1 A.Fowler (??')
Attendance:  10,992    


1
WHITTAKER
2
HAYHURST
3
ROBSON
4
DOUGALL
5
YOUNG
6
HOLMES
7
WATKIN
8
TAIT
9
SIMPSON
10
LAYTON
11
COOK
1
WILDMAN
2
TONNER
3
SMITH
4
RICHARDSON
5
MORRALL
6
WILCOCKSON
7
JONES
8
FOWLER
9
MORTON
10
BRADLEY
11
HETHERINGTON

Lineups
 
Percy WHITTAKER
                 
Frank WILDMAN
 
 
Bert HAYHURST
                 
Arthur TONNER
 
 
Bill ROBSON
                 
Jack SMITH
 
 
R. DOUGALL
                 
Bill RICHARDSON
 
 
Len YOUNG
                 
George MORRALL
 
 
Jim HOLMES
                 
Stan WILCOCKSON
 
 
Dennis WATKIN
               
Eddie JONES
 

 
Tommy TAIT
               
Alan FOWLER
 

 
Peter SIMPSON
               
Ben MORTON
 
 
Bill LAYTON
                 
Jack BRADLEY
 
 
Willie COOK  
                 
Arthur HETHERINGTON
 













Results on Saturday, December 25, 1937: League Table
 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 0 - 0 Torquay United  
  Bristol Rovers 5 - 2 Walsall  
  Mansfield Town 3 - 0 Cardiff City  
  Queens Park Rangers 1 - 0 Southend United  
  Reading 2 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Watford 3 - 0 Newport County  

Table as at Saturday, December 25, 1937:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Queens Park Rangers 19 10 6 3 30 14 2.14 26 
2 Notts County 20 10 5 5 31 15 2.07 25 
3 Millwall 19 9 5 5 35 20 1.75 23 
4 Cardiff City 19 9 5 5 41 29 1.41 23 
5 Watford 19 8 6 5 33 20 1.65 22 
6 Southend United 19 9 3 7 30 24 1.25 21 
7 Reading 19 8 5 6 30 31 0.97 21 
8 Mansfield Town 19 7 6 6 27 23 1.17 20 
9 Bristol City 17 7 6 4 23 21 1.10 20 
10 Crystal Palace 17 8 3 6 27 22 1.23 19 
11 Brighton and Hove Albion 18 8 3 7 26 22 1.18 19 
12 Swindon Town 19 7 5 7 22 21 1.05 19 
13 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 19 6 7 6 21 20 1.05 19 
14 Newport County 19 6 6 7 24 26 0.92 18 
15 Northampton Town 18 7 3 8 21 28 0.75 17 
16 Leyton Orient 18 7 2 9 20 25 0.80 16 
17 Torquay United 19 7 2 10 24 42 0.57 16 
18 Exeter City 18 5 5 8 26 31 0.84 15 
19 Bristol Rovers 18 4 7 7 20 29 0.69 15 
20 Walsall 19 6 1 12 21 37 0.57 13 
21 Aldershot 18 5 3 10 16 30 0.53 13 
22 Gillingham 18 3 2 13 15 33 0.45 8 

Key: Promotion Re-election