Football League Division Three (South)
Thursday, April 23, 1953

Walsall Swindon Town
J.Bridgett (??')
HT: 1-1 M.Owen (??', ??')
Attendance:  5,304    


1
CHILVERS
2
ROWE
3
MONTGOMERY
4
WALTERS
5
HORNE
6
MILLINGTON
7
BOWEN
8
GREEN
9
BRIDGETT
10
HUGHES
11
GILES
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
JOHNSTON
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
LUNN
8
BETTERIDGE
9
OWEN
10
MILLAR
11
BAIN

Lineups
1
Gordon CHILVERS
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Norman ROWE
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Alec MONTGOMERY
                 
Terry ELWELL
3
4
Henry WALTERS
                 
Jimmy JOHNSTON
4
5
Les HORNE
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
John MILLINGTON
                 
Gordon WILLIAMS
6
7
Tommy BOWEN
                 
Harry LUNN
7

8
Billy GREEN
                 
Mick BETTERIDGE
8

9
Jack BRIDGETT
             
Maurice OWEN
9
10
John HUGHES
                 
William MILLAR
10
11
Phil GILES
                 
Jimmy BAIN
11













Results on Thursday, April 23, 1953: League Table

 
  Colchester United 0 - 0 Millwall  
  Newport County 1 - 0 Reading  
  Northampton Town 3 - 3 Torquay United  
  Walsall 1 - 2 Swindon Town  
  Watford 1 - 1 Southend United  

Table as at Thursday, April 23, 1953:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bristol Rovers 43 25 11 7 89 44 2.02 61 
2 Northampton Town 44 25 9 10 104 66 1.58 59 
3 Millwall 43 22 13 8 75 41 1.83 57 
4 Norwich City 43 23 9 11 89 52 1.71 55 
5 Bristol City 43 20 14 9 88 59 1.49 54 
6 Coventry City 43 19 11 13 74 57 1.30 49 
7 Watford 44 15 17 12 61 60 1.02 47 
8 Brighton and Hove Albion 44 18 11 15 75 74 1.01 47 
9 Southend United 43 18 11 14 66 67 0.99 47 
10 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 43 18 8 17 71 66 1.08 44 
11 Torquay United 44 17 9 18 85 84 1.01 43 
12 Reading 43 17 8 18 63 62 1.02 42 
13 Newport County 44 16 10 18 68 76 0.89 42 
14 Leyton Orient 44 15 10 19 63 68 0.93 40 
15 Ipswich Town 44 12 15 17 58 66 0.88 39 
16 Crystal Palace 43 13 13 17 64 80 0.80 39 
17 Colchester United 42 12 14 16 54 62 0.87 38 
18 Exeter City 45 12 14 19 59 71 0.83 38 
19 Swindon Town 44 13 12 19 61 75 0.81 38 
20 Gillingham 44 11 15 18 53 68 0.78 37 
21 Queens Park Rangers 43 11 15 17 60 79 0.76 37 
22 Aldershot 43 11 14 18 58 75 0.77 36 
23 Shrewsbury Town 44 11 11 22 65 89 0.73 33 
24 Walsall 44 7 8 29 53 115 0.46 22 

Key: Promotion Re-election