Football League Division Three
Monday, April 27, 1959

Queens Park Rangers Swindon Town
P.Angell (??'), M.Tomkys (??')
HT: 1-1 A.Micklewright (12')
Attendance:  7,528    


1
DRINKWATER
2
WOODS
3
INGHAM
4
PETCHEY
5
RUTTER
6
ANGELL
7
TOMKYS
8
LONGBOTTOM
9
WHITELAW
10
LOCKE
11
CLARK
1
CHANDLER
2
NEAL
3
BINGLEY
4
FOUNTAIN
5
HUDSON
6
TILLEY
7
STEPHENS
8
RICHARDS
9
WOODRUFF
10
MICKLEWRIGHT
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Ray DRINKWATER
                 
Ray CHANDLER
1
2
Pat WOODS
                 
John NEAL
2
3
Tony INGHAM
                 
Walter BINGLEY
3
4
George PETCHEY
                 
Jack FOUNTAIN
4
5
Keith RUTTER
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Peter ANGELL
               
Rex TILLEY
6
7
Mike TOMKYS
               
John STEPHENS
7

8
Arthur LONGBOTTOM
                 
John RICHARDS
8

9
George WHITELAW
                 
Bobby WOODRUFF
9
10
Les LOCKE
               
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
10
11
Clive CLARK
                 
Arnold DARCY
11













Results on Monday, April 27, 1959: League Table

 
  Colchester United 3 - 1 Halifax Town  
  Queens Park Rangers 2 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Rochdale 0 - 0 Brentford  
  Stockport County 4 - 0 Southampton  

Table as at Monday, April 27, 1959:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Hull City 45 26 9 10 89 50 1.78 61 
2 Plymouth Argyle 45 23 15 7 88 58 1.52 61 
3 Brentford 45 21 15 9 76 45 1.69 57 
4 Norwich City 44 20 13 11 83 61 1.36 53 
5 Tranmere Rovers 46 21 8 17 82 67 1.22 50 
6 Colchester United 44 20 10 14 69 63 1.10 50 
7 Reading 45 20 8 17 73 63 1.16 48 
8 Southend United 45 20 8 17 80 78 1.03 48 
9 Halifax Town 45 20 8 17 76 76 1.00 48 
10 Bury 45 17 13 15 67 56 1.20 47 
11 Bradford City 45 18 10 17 83 75 1.11 46 
12 Queens Park Rangers 46 19 8 19 74 77 0.96 46 
13 Southampton 46 17 11 18 88 80 1.10 45 
14 Swindon Town 46 16 13 17 59 57 1.04 45 
15 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 45 17 11 17 68 68 1.00 45 
16 Chesterfield 45 17 10 18 66 62 1.06 44 
17 Newport County 44 17 8 19 68 66 1.03 42 
18 Accrington Stanley 45 15 12 18 71 82 0.87 42 
19 Wrexham 45 13 14 18 58 76 0.76 40 
20 Mansfield Town 45 14 12 19 71 96 0.74 40 
21 Stockport County 46 13 10 23 65 78 0.83 36 
22 Doncaster Rovers 46 14 5 27 50 90 0.56 33 
23 Notts County 45 8 13 24 53 91 0.58 29 
24 Rochdale 46 8 12 26 37 79 0.47 28 

Key: Promotion Relegation