Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, September 23, 1953

Exeter City Swindon Town
A.Mackay (??', ??'), G.Priestley (??')
 HT: 2-1 M.Bull (??')
Attendance:  8,162    


1
KELLY
2
WALTON
3
DOYLE
4
BOOTH
5
DAVEY
6
DODGIN
7
PRIESTLEY
8
DAILEY
9
DONALDSON
10
MACKAY
11
MCCLELLAND
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
CROSS
5
BATCHELOR
6
JOHNSTON
7
BULL
8
LUNN
9
OWEN
10
LAMBERT
11
BAIN

Lineups
1
Hugh KELLY  
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Dick WALTON
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Les DOYLE
                 
Terry ELWELL
3
4
Sam BOOTH
                 
Jim CROSS
4
5
Fred DAVEY
                 
Ted BATCHELOR
5
6
Norman DODGIN
                 
Jimmy JOHNSTON
6
7
Gerry PRIESTLEY
             
Mike BULL
7

8
Jimmy DAILEY
                 
Harry LUNN
8

9
Andy DONALDSON
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Angus MACKAY
               
Ken LAMBERT
10
11
Charlie MCCLELLAND
                 
Jimmy BAIN
11













Results on Wednesday, September 23, 1953: League Table
 
  Brighton and Hove Albion 3 - 3 Watford  
  Exeter City 3 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Norwich City 1 - 1 Bristol City  
  Southampton 2 - 1 Colchester United  
  Torquay United 1 - 1 Southend United  

Table as at Wednesday, September 23, 1953:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Norwich City 11 7 4 0 18 7 2.57 18 
2 Southampton 11 8 1 2 27 11 2.45 17 
3 Ipswich Town 11 7 3 1 24 11 2.18 17 
4 Brighton and Hove Albion 11 7 3 1 22 15 1.47 17 
5 Crystal Palace 11 5 4 2 23 19 1.21 14 
6 Swindon Town 11 6 1 4 23 13 1.77 13 
7 Bristol City 11 5 3 3 21 15 1.40 13 
8 Aldershot 11 5 3 3 15 13 1.15 13 
9 Reading 11 5 2 4 18 20 0.90 12 
10 Northampton Town 11 4 3 4 18 16 1.13 11 
11 Watford 11 5 1 5 24 23 1.04 11 
12 Shrewsbury Town 10 4 2 4 17 15 1.13 10 
13 Coventry City 11 5 0 6 17 17 1.00 10 
14 Leyton Orient 10 4 1 5 20 20 1.00 9 
15 Southend United 11 3 3 5 12 13 0.92 9 
16 Exeter City 11 4 1 6 14 17 0.82 9 
17 Queens Park Rangers 11 3 3 5 11 15 0.73 9 
18 Colchester United 11 4 0 7 14 18 0.78 8 
19 Millwall 10 3 2 5 14 18 0.78 8 
20 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 11 3 2 6 13 19 0.68 8 
21 Gillingham 10 2 4 4 11 21 0.52 8 
22 Torquay United 11 2 3 6 19 22 0.86 7 
23 Newport County 11 2 1 8 13 32 0.41 5 
24 Walsall 11 1 2 8 7 25 0.28 4 

Key: Promotion Re-election