Football League Division Three (South)
Thursday, September 10, 1953

Walsall Swindon Town

HT: 0-1 J.Bain (44')
Attendance:  7,784    


1
FLACK
2
FLAVELL
3
PERRY
4
DEAN
5
BRIDGETT
6
GREEN
7
MORRIS
8
BROMLEY
9
SMITH
10
WOODWARD
11
LLOYD
1
CHURCHILL
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
CROSS
5
BATCHELOR
6
JOHNSTON
7
LUNN
8
LAMBERT
9
OWEN
10
BAIN
11
BULL

Lineups
1
Doug FLACK
                 
Trevor CHURCHILL
1
2
Jack FLAVELL
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Len PERRY
                 
Terry ELWELL
3
4
George DEAN
                 
Jim CROSS
4
5
Jack BRIDGETT
                 
Ted BATCHELOR
5
6
Billy GREEN
                 
Jimmy JOHNSTON
6
7
Fred MORRIS
                 
Harry LUNN
7

8
Tom BROMLEY
                 
Ken LAMBERT
8

9
George SMITH
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Johnny WOODWARD
               
Jimmy BAIN
10
11
Peter LLOYD
                 
Mike BULL
11













Results on Thursday, September 10, 1953: League Table

 
  Leyton Orient 3 - 2 Torquay United  
  Walsall 0 - 1 Swindon Town  

Table as at Thursday, September 10, 1953:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Ipswich Town 7 6 1 0 19 5 3.80 13 
2 Brighton and Hove Albion 7 6 1 0 15 8 1.88 13 
3 Southampton 7 5 1 1 19 7 2.71 11 
4 Norwich City 7 4 3 0 13 6 2.17 11 
5 Aldershot 7 4 2 1 11 6 1.83 10 
6 Swindon Town 7 4 1 2 15 7 2.14
7 Reading 7 4 1 2 14 13 1.08
8 Crystal Palace 7 3 3 1 16 15 1.07
9 Bristol City 7 3 2 2 12 8 1.50
10 Shrewsbury Town 6 3 1 2 12 11 1.09
11 Gillingham 7 2 3 2 9 10 0.90
12 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 7 3 1 3 10 12 0.83
13 Coventry City 7 3 0 4 12 12 1.00
14 Colchester United 7 3 0 4 10 12 0.83
15 Northampton Town 7 2 1 4 11 12 0.92
16 Exeter City 7 2 1 4 7 9 0.78
17 Millwall 6 2 1 3 7 10 0.70
18 Queens Park Rangers 7 2 1 4 6 10 0.60
19 Leyton Orient 7 2 0 5 11 15 0.73
20 Watford 7 2 0 5 11 19 0.58
21 Newport County 7 2 0 5 11 23 0.48
22 Torquay United 7 1 1 5 11 17 0.65
23 Southend United 7 1 1 5 6 10 0.60
24 Walsall 7 0 2 5 5 16 0.31

Key: Promotion Re-election