Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, October 1, 1952

Swindon Town Walsall
M.Betteridge (??')
 HT: 1-0 J.Bridgett (??'), J.Duggins (??')
Attendance:  4,279    


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
CRYLE
5
HUDSON
6
GRAY
7
RYDER
8
OWEN
9
JOHNSON
10
BETTERIDGE
11
WILLIAMS
1
LEWIS
2
ROWE
3
WALTERS
4
DEAN
5
GREEN
6
HOWARTH
7
MORRIS
8
DRIVER
9
BRIDGETT
10
DUGGINS
11
EDWARDS

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Jack LEWIS
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Norman ROWE
2
3
Terry ELWELL
                 
Henry WALTERS
3
4
George CRYLE
                 
George DEAN
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Billy GREEN
5
6
George GRAY
                 
Syd HOWARTH
6
7
Terry RYDER
                 
Fred MORRIS
7

8
Maurice OWEN
                 
Allenby DRIVER
8

9
Roy JOHNSON
               
Jack BRIDGETT
9
10
Mick BETTERIDGE
             
John DUGGINS
10
11
Gordon WILLIAMS
                 
Tommy EDWARDS
11













Results on Wednesday, October 1, 1952: League Table
 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 - 1 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Gillingham 2 - 0 Aldershot  
  Ipswich Town 2 - 0 Crystal Palace  
  Reading 2 - 1 Newport County  
  Swindon Town 1 - 2 Walsall  
  Torquay United 3 - 0 Northampton Town  

Table as at Wednesday, October 1, 1952:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bristol Rovers 12 8 2 2 25 13 1.92 18 
2 Southend United 12 7 2 3 23 17 1.35 16 
3 Norwich City 12 7 1 4 28 10 2.80 15 
4 Reading 12 7 1 4 23 15 1.53 15 
5 Brighton and Hove Albion 12 6 3 3 26 19 1.37 15 
6 Northampton Town 12 7 1 4 27 22 1.23 15 
7 Millwall 11 5 4 2 13 5 2.60 14 
8 Coventry City 12 5 4 3 20 15 1.33 14 
9 Newport County 12 6 2 4 29 24 1.21 14 
10 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 12 6 1 5 22 18 1.22 13 
11 Bristol City 11 4 4 3 21 17 1.24 12 
12 Exeter City 12 5 2 5 18 15 1.20 12 
13 Ipswich Town 12 5 2 5 12 12 1.00 12 
14 Aldershot 12 4 3 5 16 18 0.89 11 
15 Gillingham 12 4 3 5 10 14 0.71 11 
16 Colchester United 11 4 2 5 12 14 0.86 10 
17 Watford 12 3 4 5 16 20 0.80 10 
18 Torquay United 12 3 3 6 21 23 0.91 9 
19 Leyton Orient 11 4 1 6 17 20 0.85 9 
20 Swindon Town 12 3 3 6 13 21 0.62 9 
21 Queens Park Rangers 11 2 5 4 13 24 0.54 9 
22 Shrewsbury Town 11 2 3 6 11 22 0.50 7 
23 Walsall 12 2 2 8 15 33 0.45 6 
24 Crystal Palace 12 1 4 7 8 28 0.29 6 

Key: Promotion Re-election