Football League Division Three (South)
Tuesday, April 23, 1957

Northampton Town Swindon Town
J.English (??'), R.Miller (??')
 HT: 1-0
Attendance:  4,950    


1
ELVY
2
MARSTON
3
PATTERSON
4
SMITH
5
GALE
6
LEEK
7
ENGLISH
8
MILLER
9
MILLS
10
TEBBUTT
11
FOWLER
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
EARL
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
FOUNTAIN
7
RISEBOROUGH
8
MICKLEWRIGHT
9
O'MAHONEY
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Reg ELVY
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Maurice MARSTON
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Ronnie PATTERSON
                 
Stan EARL
3
4
John SMITH
                 
Jim CROSS
4
5
Colin GALE
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Ken LEEK  
                 
Jack FOUNTAIN
6
7
Jack ENGLISH
               
Cyril RISEBOROUGH
7

8
Roger MILLER
               
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
8

9
Roly MILLS
                 
Frank O'MAHONEY
9
10
Bobby TEBBUTT
                 
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Tommy FOWLER
                 
Arnold DARCY
11













Results on Tuesday, April 23, 1957: League Table
 
  Coventry City 4 - 2 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Northampton Town 2 - 0 Swindon Town  

Table as at Tuesday, April 23, 1957:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Ipswich Town 44 24 8 12 96 51 1.88 56 
2 Colchester United 44 21 14 9 81 52 1.56 56 
3 Torquay United 44 23 10 11 85 63 1.35 56 
4 Southampton 43 21 10 12 71 46 1.54 52 
5 Brighton and Hove Albion 44 18 14 12 78 61 1.28 50 
6 Brentford 44 16 15 13 77 73 1.05 47 
7 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 43 16 14 13 78 60 1.30 46 
8 Shrewsbury Town 43 14 18 11 68 72 0.94 46 
9 Southend United 44 17 11 16 69 62 1.11 45 
10 Queens Park Rangers 44 17 11 16 56 57 0.98 45 
11 Walsall 44 16 12 16 77 69 1.12 44 
12 Watford 43 17 10 16 68 67 1.01 44 
13 Reading 44 17 9 18 75 73 1.03 43 
14 Northampton Town 44 17 9 18 64 69 0.93 43 
15 Millwall 44 16 11 17 62 81 0.77 43 
16 Newport County 43 15 12 16 61 58 1.05 42 
17 Aldershot 44 15 12 17 79 88 0.90 42 
18 Coventry City 45 15 12 18 73 84 0.87 42 
19 Plymouth Argyle 44 15 10 19 65 71 0.92 40 
20 Crystal Palace 44 10 17 17 59 73 0.81 37 
21 Gillingham 44 12 12 20 53 79 0.67 36 
22 Exeter City 44 11 13 20 58 76 0.76 35 
23 Swindon Town 44 14 6 24 62 94 0.66 34 
24 Norwich City 44 7 14 23 57 93 0.61 28 

Key: Promotion Re-election