Football League Division Three (South)
Tuesday, December 27, 1955

Crystal Palace Swindon Town

HT: 0-2 B.Edwards (??'), A.Micklewright (??')
Attendance:  10,608    


1
POTTER
2
NOAKES
3
GREENWOOD
4
MOSS
5
SAUNDERS
6
ANDREWS
7
BERRY
8
BRETT
9
DEAKIN
10
PIERCE
11
GUNNING
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
FOX
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
MCSHANE
7
GIBSON
8
MICKLEWRIGHT
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
BRENNAN

Lineups
1
Ray POTTER
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Alfie NOAKES
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Roy GREENWOOD
                 
Geoff FOX
3
4
Don MOSS
                 
Jim CROSS
4
5
Jack SAUNDERS
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Archie ANDREWS
                 
Anthony MCSHANE
6
7
Peter BERRY
                 
Dave GIBSON
7

8
Ron BRETT
               
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
8

9
Mike DEAKIN
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Barry PIERCE
               
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Harry GUNNING
                 
Jim BRENNAN
11













Results on Tuesday, December 27, 1955: League Table

 
  Coventry City 5 - 1 Millwall  
  Crystal Palace 0 - 2 Swindon Town  
  Exeter City 2 - 0 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Gillingham 2 - 3 Southend United  
  Ipswich Town 3 - 1 Colchester United  
  Newport County 1 - 0 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Northampton Town 1 - 3 Watford  
  Norwich City 2 - 2 Leyton Orient  
  Queens Park Rangers 2 - 2 Aldershot  
  Reading 5 - 2 Brentford  
  Southampton 6 - 2 Torquay United  
  Walsall 1 - 0 Shrewsbury Town  

Table as at Tuesday, December 27, 1955:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Leyton Orient 24 14 7 3 55 17 3.24 35 
2 Ipswich Town 25 13 8 4 61 39 1.56 34 
3 Brighton and Hove Albion 25 14 5 6 62 24 2.58 33 
4 Torquay United 25 13 7 5 48 29 1.66 33 
5 Coventry City 26 14 4 8 47 31 1.52 32 
6 Northampton Town 25 14 3 8 43 36 1.19 31 
7 Southend United 25 14 3 8 57 49 1.16 31 
8 Norwich City 25 12 7 6 53 47 1.13 31 
9 Brentford 25 11 6 8 38 42 0.90 28 
10 Shrewsbury Town 25 11 4 10 44 39 1.13 26 
11 Gillingham 25 10 5 10 40 37 1.08 25 
12 Southampton 25 10 4 11 50 46 1.09 24 
13 Exeter City 25 8 8 9 29 36 0.81 24 
14 Colchester United 25 9 6 10 38 50 0.76 24 
15 Newport County 26 9 5 12 36 46 0.78 23 
16 Aldershot 25 6 10 9 45 49 0.92 22 
17 Watford 25 7 7 11 33 48 0.69 21 
18 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 25 7 6 12 26 35 0.74 20 
19 Reading 25 7 5 13 41 49 0.84 19 
20 Crystal Palace 25 6 7 12 31 43 0.72 19 
21 Queens Park Rangers 25 5 8 12 31 46 0.67 18 
22 Walsall 25 7 3 15 35 57 0.61 17 
23 Millwall 24 6 3 15 38 58 0.66 15 
24 Swindon Town 25 4 7 14 20 48 0.42 15 

Key: Promotion Re-election