Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, April 6, 1955

Torquay United Swindon Town
S.Collins (??' pen)
HT: 1-1 M.Owen (??')
Attendance:  4,285    


1
JEFFERIES
2
TOWERS
3
ANDERTON
4
LEWIS
5
WEBBER
6
NORMAN
7
SHAW
8
COLLINS
9
DOBBIE
10
MILLS
11
THOMAS
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
JACKSON
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
GIBSON
8
ONSLOW
9
OWEN
10
SAMPSON
11
BULL

Lineups
1
Alf JEFFERIES
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Bill TOWERS
                 
George HUNT
2
3
John ANDERTON
                 
Peter HILTON
3
4
Dennis LEWIS
                 
Roy JACKSON
4
5
Eric WEBBER
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Griff NORMAN
                 
Gordon WILLIAMS
6
7
Ron SHAW
                 
Dave GIBSON
7

8
Sammy COLLINS
               
Roy ONSLOW
8

9
Harold DOBBIE
               
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Don MILLS
                 
Ray SAMPSON
10
11
Billy THOMAS
                 
Mike BULL
11













Results on Wednesday, April 6, 1955: League Table

 
  Torquay United 1 - 1 Swindon Town  

Table as at Wednesday, April 6, 1955:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bristol City 39 26 7 6 88 42 2.10 59 
2 Leyton Orient 37 23 8 6 78 32 2.44 54 
3 Southampton 38 22 8 8 63 39 1.62 52 
4 Millwall 38 17 10 11 60 52 1.15 44 
5 Gillingham 37 17 10 10 64 56 1.14 44 
6 Watford 37 15 11 11 57 49 1.16 41 
7 Norwich City 37 16 7 14 51 45 1.13 39 
8 Queens Park Rangers 37 14 11 12 59 55 1.07 39 
9 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 37 12 14 11 53 49 1.08 38 
10 Torquay United 38 14 10 14 67 69 0.97 38 
11 Coventry City 35 14 9 12 50 43 1.16 37 
12 Brighton and Hove Albion 36 15 6 15 61 54 1.13 36 
13 Northampton Town 38 15 6 17 57 75 0.76 36 
14 Reading 37 11 11 15 55 60 0.92 33 
15 Southend United 35 11 10 14 61 63 0.97 32 
16 Brentford 36 10 12 14 64 70 0.91 32 
17 Aldershot 37 11 10 16 52 58 0.90 32 
18 Shrewsbury Town 36 11 8 17 49 68 0.72 30 
19 Crystal Palace 37 8 14 15 43 67 0.64 30 
20 Exeter City 37 9 12 16 37 59 0.63 30 
21 Newport County 37 8 13 16 49 62 0.79 29 
22 Swindon Town 36 8 13 15 37 49 0.76 29 
23 Colchester United 37 8 12 17 41 66 0.62 28 
24 Walsall 37 6 12 19 60 74 0.81 24 

Key: Promotion Re-election