Football League Division Three
Saturday, February 14, 1959

Swindon Town Chesterfield
M.Owen (70')
HT: 0-1 B.Frear (13'), A.Bottom (84')
Attendance:  8,451   Referee:  R.H. Mann


1
BURTON
2
NEAL
3
LEE
4
FOUNTAIN
5
HUDSON
6
OWEN
7
CORBETT
8
MIDDLETON
9
WOODRUFF
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY
1
BANKS
2
SEEMLEY
3
SEARS
4
CLARKE
5
BLAKEY
6
HUTCHINSON
7
MACCABE
8
HAVENHAND
9
BOTTOM
10
FREAR
11
LEWIS

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
  Gordon BANKS
1
2
John NEAL
                 
Ivor SEEMLEY
2
3
Jimmy LEE
                 
Gerry SEARS
3
4
Jack FOUNTAIN
                 
Gerry CLARKE
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Dave BLAKEY
5
6
Maurice OWEN
               
Barry HUTCHINSON
6
7
David CORBETT
                 
Andy MACCABE
7

8
Ray MIDDLETON
                 
Keith HAVENHAND
8

9
Bobby WOODRUFF
               
Arthur BOTTOM
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
               
Brian FREAR
10
11
Arnold DARCY
                 
Gwyn LEWIS
11















Results on Saturday, February 14, 1959: League Table

 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 1 - 1 Plymouth Argyle  
  Bradford City 0 - 0 Accrington Stanley  
  Brentford 3 - 0 Newport County  
  Bury 3 - 1 Queens Park Rangers  
  Colchester United 1 - 1 Tranmere Rovers  
  Hull City 4 - 0 Halifax Town  
  Mansfield Town 3 - 0 Notts County  
  Reading 2 - 1 Stockport County  
  Southend United 3 - 1 Rochdale  
  Swindon Town 1 - 2 Chesterfield  
  Wrexham 1 - 3 Southampton  

Table as at Saturday, February 14, 1959:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Hull City 33 19 6 8 68 39 1.74 44 
2 Plymouth Argyle 30 16 11 3 63 37 1.70 43 
3 Southend United 32 15 7 10 58 50 1.16 37 
4 Colchester United 29 12 10 7 50 38 1.32 34 
5 Brentford 29 12 10 7 37 30 1.23 34 
6 Southampton 31 12 9 10 70 52 1.35 33 
7 Bury 31 12 8 11 53 42 1.26 32 
8 Reading 31 12 8 11 47 41 1.15 32 
9 Chesterfield 32 12 8 12 52 48 1.08 32 
10 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 33 13 6 14 50 53 0.94 32 
11 Tranmere Rovers 30 12 7 11 49 44 1.11 31 
12 Norwich City 28 11 8 9 49 41 1.20 30 
13 Accrington Stanley 29 11 8 10 48 41 1.17 30 
14 Halifax Town 29 13 4 12 47 55 0.85 30 
15 Swindon Town 29 11 7 11 36 34 1.06 29 
16 Bradford City 29 11 7 11 52 50 1.04 29 
17 Newport County 29 11 7 11 47 47 1.00 29 
18 Mansfield Town 30 11 7 12 53 65 0.82 29 
19 Wrexham 30 10 8 12 46 54 0.85 28 
20 Queens Park Rangers 30 10 6 14 45 62 0.73 26 
21 Stockport County 30 9 6 15 45 54 0.83 24 
22 Notts County 30 6 11 13 41 63 0.65 23 
23 Doncaster Rovers 31 8 2 21 32 65 0.49 18 
24 Rochdale 31 5 7 19 28 61 0.46 17 

Key: Promotion Relegation