Football League Division Three
Wednesday, September 23, 1959

Swindon Town Wrexham
J.Richards (5'), J.Gauld (16'), J.Hoskins (31'), A.Darcy (78')
 HT: 3-0 B.Evans (68')
Attendance:  10,233   Referee:  A.J. Rowbottom


1
BURTON
2
CHAMBERLAIN
3
BINGLEY
4
MORGAN
5
MELLOR
6
WOODRUFF
7
DARCY
8
EDWARDS
9
RICHARDS
10
GAULD
11
HOSKINS
1
HUGHES
2
MCGOWAN
3
JONES
4
FENTON
5
FOX
6
EVANS
7
JONES
8
WESTON
9
EVANS
10
HEWITT
11
BROWN

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Charlie HUGHES
1
2
Peter CHAMBERLAIN
                 
Ally MCGOWAN
2
3
Walter BINGLEY
                 
view STFC profileKen JONES
3
4
Keith MORGAN
                 
Ewan FENTON
4
5
Ken MELLOR
                 
Alan FOX
5
6
Bobby WOODRUFF
                 
George EVANS
6
7
Arnold DARCY
               
Gren JONES
7

8
Bob EDWARDS
                 
Don WESTON
8

9
John RICHARDS
             
Bernard EVANS
9
10
Jimmy GAULD
               
  Ron HEWITT
10
11
John HOSKINS
               
Peter BROWN
11













Results on Wednesday, September 23, 1959: League Table
 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 4 - 1 Newport County  
  Norwich City 2 - 0 Bury  
  Reading 2 - 0 Accrington Stanley  
  Southampton 6 - 3 Shrewsbury Town  
  Swindon Town 4 - 1 Wrexham  

Table as at Wednesday, September 23, 1959:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Norwich City 10 6 3 1 21 9 2.33 15 
2 Southampton 10 6 3 1 33 22 1.50 15 
3 Halifax Town 10 6 3 1 15 10 1.50 15 
4 Queens Park Rangers 10 5 3 2 17 6 2.83 13 
5 Coventry City 10 4 5 1 17 9 1.89 13 
6 Grimsby Town 10 5 3 2 28 15 1.87 13 
7 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 10 6 1 3 19 12 1.58 13 
8 Shrewsbury Town 10 5 2 3 25 18 1.39 12 
9 Swindon Town 10 5 2 3 19 16 1.19 12 
10 Bury 10 5 1 4 15 8 1.88 11 
11 Newport County 10 4 3 3 12 15 0.80 11 
12 Brentford 10 3 4 3 17 17 1.00 10 
13 York City 10 3 4 3 10 12 0.83 10 
14 Tranmere Rovers 10 3 3 4 20 14 1.43 9 
15 Barnsley 10 3 3 4 15 13 1.15 9 
16 Port Vale 10 4 1 5 12 24 0.50 9 
17 Bradford City 10 3 2 5 18 20 0.90 8 
18 Colchester United 10 3 2 5 19 24 0.79 8 
19 Chesterfield 9 3 0 6 14 21 0.67 6 
20 Accrington Stanley 10 2 2 6 14 30 0.47 6 
21 Southend United 10 2 2 6 11 24 0.46 6 
22 Reading 10 2 1 7 21 25 0.84 5 
23 Mansfield Town 10 1 3 6 9 24 0.38 5 
24 Wrexham 9 1 2 6 11 24 0.46 4 

Key: Promotion Relegation