Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, April 7, 1954

Brighton and Hove Albion Swindon Town
B.Moore (??')
HT: 0-0 R.Onslow (??')
Attendance:  19,440    


1
GILL
2
TENNANT
3
LANGLEY
4
BURTENSHAW
5
SOUTH
6
WILSON
7
GORDON
8
MOORE
9
ADDINALL
10
LEADBETTER
11
FOREMAN
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
PAGE
4
JOHNSTON
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMSON
7
BULL
8
ONSLOW
9
OWEN
10
SAMPSON
11
BEARDS

Lineups
1
Eric GILL
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Des TENNANT
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Jimmy LANGLEY  
                 
Mick PAGE
3
4
Steve BURTENSHAW
                 
Jimmy JOHNSTON
4
5
Alex SOUTH
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Glen WILSON
                 
Stewart WILLIAMSON
6
7
Denis GORDON
                 
Mike BULL
7

8
Bernard MOORE
             
Roy ONSLOW
8

9
Bert ADDINALL
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Jimmy LEADBETTER
                 
Ray SAMPSON
10
11
Denis FOREMAN
                 
Alan BEARDS
11













Results on Wednesday, April 7, 1954: League Table

 
  Aldershot 3 - 1 Walsall  
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 0 - 1 Queens Park Rangers  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 1 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Southampton  
  Reading 0 - 2 Bristol City  

Table as at Wednesday, April 7, 1954:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Brighton and Hove Albion 39 23 7 9 75 51 1.47 53 
2 Ipswich Town 39 22 8 9 70 46 1.52 52 
3 Bristol City 39 20 6 13 77 58 1.33 46 
4 Watford 38 19 8 11 77 58 1.33 46 
5 Southampton 39 21 4 14 69 54 1.28 46 
6 Northampton Town 38 17 9 12 72 46 1.57 43 
7 Gillingham 40 17 9 14 55 58 0.95 43 
8 Reading 40 17 8 15 73 65 1.12 42 
9 Norwich City 38 16 10 12 62 56 1.11 42 
10 Torquay United 40 15 11 14 72 76 0.95 41 
11 Millwall 38 16 8 14 63 64 0.98 40 
12 Leyton Orient 37 15 8 14 65 61 1.07 38 
13 Exeter City 39 15 7 17 58 51 1.14 37 
14 Swindon Town 40 14 9 17 64 62 1.03 37 
15 Southend United 39 15 7 17 63 61 1.03 37 
16 Coventry City 39 14 9 16 49 48 1.02 37 
17 Crystal Palace 39 14 9 16 53 71 0.75 37 
18 Aldershot 39 14 7 18 59 77 0.77 35 
19 Newport County 39 15 5 19 51 74 0.69 35 
20 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 40 14 6 20 58 63 0.92 34 
21 Queens Park Rangers 38 12 10 16 48 56 0.86 34 
22 Shrewsbury Town 39 10 12 17 53 65 0.82 32 
23 Colchester United 38 9 7 22 42 65 0.65 25 
24 Walsall 40 8 6 26 35 77 0.45 22 

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