Football League Division Three (South)
Monday, April 2, 1956

Swindon Town Southend United
M.Owen (??')
 HT: 1-0 D.Dowsett (??')
Attendance:  8,728    


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
FOX
4
MICKLEWRIGHT
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
GIBSON
8
AGAR
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
MOSS
1
THREADGOLD
2
WILLIAMSON
3
HOWE
4
DUTHIE
5
STIRLING
6
LAWLER
7
BARKER
8
MCCRORY
9
HOLLIS
10
DOWSETT
11
MCGUIGAN

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Harry THREADGOLD
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Arthur WILLIAMSON
2
3
Geoff FOX
                 
Denis HOWE
3
4
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
                 
Jim DUTHIE
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Jimmy STIRLING
5
6
Gordon WILLIAMS
                 
Jimmy LAWLER
6
7
Dave GIBSON
                 
Gordon BARKER
7

8
Roy AGAR
                 
  Sammy MCCRORY
8

9
Maurice OWEN
               
Roy HOLLIS
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
               
Dickie DOWSETT
10
11
Terry MOSS
                 
Johnny MCGUIGAN
11













Results on Monday, April 2, 1956: League Table
 
  Aldershot 1 - 1 Watford  
  Brentford 2 - 1 Northampton Town  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 2 - 1 Millwall  
  Exeter City 2 - 0 Newport County  
  Norwich City 3 - 2 Ipswich Town  
  Reading 1 - 0 Crystal Palace  
  Shrewsbury Town 1 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Southampton 1 - 1 Gillingham  
  Swindon Town 1 - 1 Southend United  
  Torquay United 1 - 3 Leyton Orient  
  Walsall 0 - 0 Colchester United  

Table as at Monday, April 2, 1956:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Leyton Orient 38 26 7 5 94 32 2.94 59 
2 Brighton and Hove Albion 40 26 5 9 98 41 2.39 57 
3 Ipswich Town 40 21 12 7 94 55 1.71 54 
4 Southend United 38 19 9 10 79 62 1.27 47 
5 Coventry City 40 19 7 14 65 50 1.30 45 
6 Norwich City 38 17 11 10 73 67 1.09 45 
7 Brentford 39 16 12 11 61 59 1.03 44 
8 Torquay United 40 16 11 13 69 54 1.28 43 
9 Colchester United 41 16 11 14 68 71 0.96 43 
10 Southampton 41 17 8 16 81 67 1.21 42 
11 Northampton Town 38 17 7 14 55 57 0.96 41 
12 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 39 15 10 14 51 41 1.24 40 
13 Shrewsbury Town 40 14 10 16 59 58 1.02 38 
14 Gillingham 40 14 10 16 57 66 0.86 38 
15 Aldershot 40 11 14 15 66 78 0.85 36 
16 Reading 41 13 7 21 64 75 0.85 33 
17 Exeter City 40 12 9 19 48 66 0.73 33 
18 Watford 41 11 11 19 47 78 0.60 33 
19 Newport County 39 12 8 19 50 69 0.72 32 
20 Queens Park Rangers 40 10 11 19 51 75 0.68 31 
21 Walsall 38 11 8 19 51 72 0.71 30 
22 Crystal Palace 40 10 10 20 50 73 0.68 30 
23 Millwall 39 11 6 22 66 91 0.73 28 
24 Swindon Town 40 8 12 20 32 72 0.44 28 

Key: Promotion Re-election