Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, May 4, 1955

Swindon Town Reading
H.Williams (??'), R.Reeves (??' o.g.)
HT: 1-0
Attendance:  5,147    


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
BATCHELOR
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
RISEBOROUGH
8
SAMPSON
9
ONSLOW
10
WILLIAMS
11
BULL
1
JONES
2
PENFORD
3
MANSELL
4
CAMPBELL
5
REEVES
6
MCLAREN
7
HINSHELWOOD
8
UPHILL
9
DIXON
10
LEACH
11
WHEELER

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Dave JONES
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Dennis PENFORD
2
3
Peter HILTON
                 
Barry MANSELL
3
4
Ted BATCHELOR
                 
  Bobby CAMPBELL
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                
Ray REEVES
5
6
Gordon WILLIAMS
                 
Eddie MCLAREN
6
7
Cyril RISEBOROUGH
                 
Wally HINSHELWOOD
7

8
Ray SAMPSON
                 
Dennis UPHILL
8

9
Roy ONSLOW
                 
Tommy DIXON
9
10
Henry WILLIAMS
               
Brian LEACH
10
11
Mike BULL
                 
Jimmy WHEELER
11













Results on Wednesday, May 4, 1955: League Table

 
  Brighton and Hove Albion 5 - 3 Aldershot  
  Coventry City 1 - 4 Southend United  
  Crystal Palace 2 - 0 Norwich City  
  Swindon Town 2 - 0 Reading  
  Torquay United 2 - 1 Colchester United  

Table as at Wednesday, May 4, 1955:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bristol City 46 30 10 6 101 47 2.15 70 
2 Leyton Orient 45 25 9 11 85 46 1.85 59 
3 Southampton 46 24 11 11 75 51 1.47 59 
4 Gillingham 46 20 15 11 77 66 1.17 55 
5 Millwall 46 20 11 15 72 68 1.06 51 
6 Watford 45 18 13 14 70 61 1.15 49 
7 Brighton and Hove Albion 45 19 10 16 74 63 1.17 48 
8 Torquay United 46 18 12 16 82 82 1.00 48 
9 Coventry City 45 18 11 16 67 57 1.18 47 
10 Norwich City 46 18 10 18 60 60 1.00 46 
11 Northampton Town 46 19 8 19 73 81 0.90 46 
12 Aldershot 46 16 13 17 75 71 1.06 45 
13 Southend United 45 17 11 17 81 78 1.04 45 
14 Brentford 45 16 13 16 80 80 1.00 45 
15 Queens Park Rangers 46 15 14 17 69 75 0.92 44 
16 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 46 12 18 16 57 65 0.88 42 
17 Reading 46 13 15 18 65 73 0.89 41 
18 Shrewsbury Town 45 15 10 20 63 78 0.81 40 
19 Newport County 46 11 16 19 60 73 0.82 38 
20 Crystal Palace 46 11 16 19 52 80 0.65 38 
21 Swindon Town 45 11 15 19 46 57 0.81 37 
22 Exeter City 45 11 14 20 46 72 0.64 36 
23 Walsall 45 10 14 21 74 82 0.90 34 
24 Colchester United 46 9 13 24 53 91 0.58 31 

Key: Promotion Re-election