Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, January 14, 1953

Swindon Town Millwall
M.Owen (??')
HT: 0-1 J.Shepherd (??', ??')
Attendance:  13,526    


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
RADFORD
4
CRYLE
5
HUDSON
6
PROUTON
7
RYDER
8
LUNN
9
OWEN
10
BETTERIDGE
11
BAIN
1
FINLAYSON
2
JARDINE
3
FISHER
4
SHORT
5
BOWLER
6
SAWARD
7
JOHNSON
8
STOBBART
9
SHEPHERD
10
MORGAN
11
HARTBURN

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Malcolm FINLAYSON
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Alex JARDINE
2
3
Arthur RADFORD
                 
George FISHER
3
4
George CRYLE
                 
John SHORT
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
  Gerry BOWLER
5
6
Ralph PROUTON
                 
  Pat SAWARD
6
7
Terry RYDER
                 
Johnny JOHNSON
7

8
Harry LUNN
                 
George STOBBART
8

9
Maurice OWEN
             
John SHEPHERD
9
10
Mick BETTERIDGE
                 
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10
11
Jimmy BAIN
                 
Johnny HARTBURN
11













Results on Wednesday, January 14, 1953: League Table

 
  Ipswich Town 2 - 2 Torquay United  
  Swindon Town 1 - 2 Millwall  
  Watford 2 - 3 Brighton and Hove Albion  

Table as at Wednesday, January 14, 1953:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bristol Rovers 25 19 4 2 58 21 2.76 42 
2 Northampton Town 25 16 3 6 63 40 1.58 35 
3 Millwall 25 14 6 5 45 25 1.80 34 
4 Bristol City 26 13 8 5 60 35 1.71 34 
5 Norwich City 24 14 5 5 51 22 2.32 33 
6 Coventry City 25 13 6 6 51 35 1.46 32 
7 Brighton and Hove Albion 26 11 6 9 47 46 1.02 28 
8 Watford 26 9 9 8 39 39 1.00 27 
9 Gillingham 26 10 7 9 33 36 0.92 27 
10 Ipswich Town 25 8 9 8 35 35 1.00 25 
11 Exeter City 26 8 8 10 42 42 1.00 24 
12 Reading 25 9 6 10 38 40 0.95 24 
13 Southend United 25 9 6 10 42 50 0.84 24 
14 Newport County 25 9 5 11 49 52 0.94 23 
15 Queens Park Rangers 26 7 9 10 36 50 0.72 23 
16 Aldershot 25 8 6 11 35 41 0.85 22 
17 Swindon Town 25 8 5 12 39 47 0.83 21 
18 Colchester United 22 7 6 9 27 30 0.90 20 
19 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 25 9 2 14 37 47 0.79 20 
20 Torquay United 26 7 6 13 42 54 0.78 20 
21 Crystal Palace 24 7 6 11 35 49 0.71 20 
22 Leyton Orient 24 7 3 14 36 47 0.77 17 
23 Shrewsbury Town 25 5 7 13 36 52 0.69 17 
24 Walsall 26 3 4 19 28 69 0.41 10 

Key: Promotion Re-election