Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, March 14, 1953

Swindon Town Newport County
H.Lunn (1'), M.Betteridge (9')
 HT: 2-0
Attendance:  7,445   Referee:  W. Wood


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
GRAY
5
BATCHELOR
6
PROUTON
7
LUNN
8
BETTERIDGE
9
OWEN
10
PARKER
11
BRANDON
1
FEARNLEY
2
STAPLES
3
HAYWARD
4
WAITE
5
WILCOX
6
DONALDSON
7
WHARTON
8
GRAHAM
9
BEATTIE
10
SHERGOLD
11
MOORE

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Harry FEARNLEY
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Len STAPLES
2
3
Terry ELWELL
                 
Dougie HAYWARD
3
4
George GRAY
                 
Aldwyn WAITE
4
5
Ted BATCHELOR
                 
Ray WILCOX
5
6
Ralph PROUTON
                 
Jimmy DONALDSON
6
7
Harry LUNN
               
Jackie WHARTON
7

8
Mick BETTERIDGE
               
Les GRAHAM
8

9
Maurice OWEN
                 
George BEATTIE
9
10
William PARKER
                 
Billy SHERGOLD
10
11
Ken BRANDON
                 
Beriah MOORE
11













Results on Saturday, March 14, 1953: League Table
 
  Aldershot 1 - 2 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Bristol Rovers 3 - 0 Ipswich Town  
  Colchester United 1 - 1 Watford  
  Coventry City 2 - 3 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Exeter City 2 - 0 Reading  
  Gillingham 1 - 1 Northampton Town  
  Millwall 0 - 0 Leyton Orient  
  Norwich City 3 - 1 Southend United  
  Queens Park Rangers 1 - 1 Crystal Palace  
  Shrewsbury Town 0 - 1 Bristol City  
  Swindon Town 2 - 0 Newport County  
  Walsall 2 - 0 Torquay United  

Table as at Saturday, March 14, 1953:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bristol Rovers 34 23 9 2 79 29 2.72 55 
2 Bristol City 35 19 10 6 79 45 1.76 48 
3 Norwich City 34 19 7 8 70 37 1.89 45 
4 Northampton Town 34 19 7 8 82 52 1.58 45 
5 Millwall 34 17 10 7 57 34 1.68 44 
6 Coventry City 35 17 8 10 67 49 1.37 42 
7 Watford 35 12 13 10 49 52 0.94 37 
8 Southend United 35 14 8 13 54 58 0.93 36 
9 Brighton and Hove Albion 35 13 9 13 58 63 0.92 35 
10 Exeter City 36 11 12 13 52 53 0.98 34 
11 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 34 13 6 15 53 56 0.95 32 
12 Ipswich Town 34 11 10 13 46 50 0.92 32 
13 Gillingham 35 10 12 13 40 50 0.80 32 
14 Queens Park Rangers 35 9 14 12 50 64 0.78 32 
15 Reading 34 12 7 15 47 52 0.90 31 
16 Aldershot 34 10 11 13 50 57 0.88 31 
17 Colchester United 32 10 10 12 41 45 0.91 30 
18 Shrewsbury Town 35 10 9 16 53 66 0.80 29 
19 Leyton Orient 33 11 6 16 48 54 0.89 28 
20 Torquay United 35 10 8 17 60 74 0.81 28 
21 Newport County 35 11 6 18 55 68 0.81 28 
22 Swindon Town 34 10 8 16 48 60 0.80 28 
23 Crystal Palace 33 9 9 15 49 66 0.74 27 
24 Walsall 36 5 7 24 44 97 0.45 17 

Key: Promotion Re-election