Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, November 3, 1956

Swindon Town Coventry City
D.Gibson (??'), B.Edwards (??')
 HT: 2-1 R.Sambrook (??'), P.Hill (??')
Attendance:  11,120    


1
CHANDLER
2
HUNT
3
FOX
4
CROSS
5
JACK
6
PEMBERY
7
GIBSON
8
MICKLEWRIGHT
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY
1
MATTHEWS
2
TIMMINS
3
CURTIS
4
JAMIESON
5
KIRK
6
SIMPSON
7
MOKONE
8
WALTON
9
SAMBROOK
10
HILL
11
FERGUSON

Lineups
1
Ray CHANDLER
                 
  Reg MATTHEWS
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Charlie TIMMINS
2
3
Geoff FOX
                 
George CURTIS
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Iain JAMIESON
4
5
Vince JACK
                 
Roy KIRK
5
6
Gordon PEMBERY
                 
Noel SIMPSON
6
7
Dave GIBSON
               
  Steve MOKONE
7

8
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
                 
Johnny WALTON
8

9
Maurice OWEN
               
Ray SAMBROOK
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
             
Peter HILL
10
11
Arnold DARCY
                 
David FERGUSON
11













Results on Saturday, November 3, 1956: League Table
 
  Aldershot 1 - 4 Exeter City  
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 - 1 Plymouth Argyle  
  Brentford 4 - 0 Southampton  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 0 - 0 Colchester United  
  Gillingham 1 - 1 Norwich City  
  Ipswich Town 4 - 0 Queens Park Rangers  
  Millwall 1 - 0 Newport County  
  Shrewsbury Town 0 - 0 Southend United  
  Swindon Town 2 - 2 Coventry City  
  Torquay United 3 - 1 Reading  
  Walsall 2 - 2 Northampton Town  
  Watford 1 - 4 Crystal Palace  

Table as at Saturday, November 3, 1956:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Torquay United 18 10 5 3 38 28 1.36 25 
2 Southampton 17 10 4 3 28 16 1.75 24 
3 Colchester United 18 9 4 5 40 25 1.60 22 
4 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 18 7 7 4 32 20 1.60 21 
5 Newport County 18 7 7 4 27 17 1.59 21 
6 Brentford 18 9 3 6 40 33 1.21 21 
7 Shrewsbury Town 18 5 10 3 19 25 0.76 20 
8 Brighton and Hove Albion 18 7 5 6 41 30 1.37 19 
9 Gillingham 18 7 5 6 30 30 1.00 19 
10 Watford 18 8 2 8 30 28 1.07 18 
11 Reading 18 7 4 7 27 30 0.90 18 
12 Crystal Palace 18 4 10 4 25 28 0.89 18 
13 Queens Park Rangers 18 7 4 7 22 25 0.88 18 
14 Millwall 18 7 4 7 28 34 0.82 18 
15 Northampton Town 18 6 5 7 29 24 1.21 17 
16 Ipswich Town 18 7 3 8 31 27 1.15 17 
17 Exeter City 18 5 7 6 25 24 1.04 17 
18 Coventry City 18 6 5 7 25 29 0.86 17 
19 Norwich City 17 5 6 6 20 22 0.91 16 
20 Aldershot 18 6 3 9 34 43 0.79 15 
21 Southend United 18 4 5 9 26 32 0.81 13 
22 Walsall 18 4 5 9 21 28 0.75 13 
23 Swindon Town 18 5 2 11 26 45 0.58 12 
24 Plymouth Argyle 18 3 5 10 16 37 0.43 11 

Key: Promotion Re-election