Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, August 24, 1955

Swindon Town Northampton Town

HT: 0-1 J.English (??')
Attendance:  8,552    


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
MCSHANE
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
RISEBOROUGH
8
SAMPSON
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
EDDS
1
PICKERING
2
MARSTON
3
PATTERSON
4
YEOMAN
5
COLLINS
6
SMITH
7
ENGLISH
8
NEWMAN
9
DAWSON
10
SMITH
11
FOWLER

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Peter PICKERING
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Maurice MARSTON
2
3
Peter HILTON
                 
Ronnie PATTERSON
3
4
Anthony MCSHANE
                 
Ray YEOMAN
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Ben COLLINS
5
6
Gordon WILLIAMS
                 
John SMITH
6
7
Cyril RISEBOROUGH
               
Jack ENGLISH
7

8
Ray SAMPSON
                 
Ron NEWMAN
8

9
Maurice OWEN
                 
William DAWSON
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
                 
Eddie SMITH
10
11
Ernie EDDS
                 
Tommy FOWLER
11













Results on Wednesday, August 24, 1955: League Table

 
  Aldershot 1 - 0 Newport County  
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 3 - 1 Colchester United  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 3 - 0 Walsall  
  Gillingham 0 - 1 Leyton Orient  
  Ipswich Town 4 - 2 Southampton  
  Norwich City 3 - 1 Shrewsbury Town  
  Southend United 1 - 0 Reading  
  Swindon Town 0 - 1 Northampton Town  
  Torquay United 1 - 1 Crystal Palace  

Table as at Wednesday, August 24, 1955:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Aldershot 2 2 0 0 6 0
2 Leyton Orient 2 2 0 0 3 0
3 Southend United 2 2 0 0 4 1 4.00
4 Watford 2 2 0 0 6 3 2.00
5 Northampton Town 2 2 0 0 4 2 2.00
6 Brighton and Hove Albion 2 1 1 0 4 1 4.00
7 Torquay United 2 1 1 0 3 1 3.00
8 Shrewsbury Town 2 1 0 1 6 3 2.00
9 Gillingham 2 1 0 1 4 2 2.00
10 Coventry City 2 1 0 1 4 3 1.33
11 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 1 0 1 4 4 1.00
12 Ipswich Town 2 1 0 1 4 4 1.00
13 Millwall 2 1 0 1 4 4 1.00
14 Norwich City 2 1 0 1 4 4 1.00
15 Queens Park Rangers 2 0 2 0 2 2 1.00
16 Southampton 2 1 0 1 4 5 0.80
17 Crystal Palace 2 0 1 1 3 4 0.75
18 Brentford 2 0 1 1 2 5 0.40
19 Colchester United 2 0 1 1 1 3 0.33
20 Exeter City 2 0 1 1 0 2 0.00
21 Swindon Town 2 0 0 2 1 3 0.33
22 Walsall 2 0 0 2 0 5 0.00
23 Newport County 2 0 0 2 0 6 0.00
24 Reading 2 0 0 2 0 6 0.00

Key: Promotion Re-election