Football League Division Three
Monday, December 27, 1965

Grimsby Town Swindon Town
B.Hill (11'), J.Fielding (43')
 HT: 2-1 K.East (26'), D.Brown (75')
Attendance:  13,284   Referee:  H.P. Hackney


1
WRIGHT
2
THOMPSON
3
TAYLOR
4
DAVIDSON
5
JOBLING
6
CLIFTON
7
FIELDING
8
TEES
9
ROSS
10
FOSTER
11
HILL
1
DOWNSBOROUGH
2
DAWSON
3
TROLLOPE
4
MORGAN
5
NURSE
6
SHERGOLD
7
ROGERS
8
SMART
9
EAST
10
BROWN
11
WALKER

Lineups
1
Charlie WRIGHT
                 
Peter DOWNSBOROUGH
1
2
Jimmy THOMPSON
                 
Owen DAWSON
2
3
Graham TAYLOR
                 
John TROLLOPE
3
4
Angus DAVIDSON
                 
Keith MORGAN
4
5
Keith JOBLING
                 
  Mel NURSE
5
6
Brian CLIFTON
                 
Wilf SHERGOLD
6

7
Johnny FIELDING
               
Don ROGERS
7

8
Matt TEES
 30'
               
Roger SMART
8
9
Bobby ROSS
               
Keith EAST
9
10
Ronnie FOSTER
               
Dennis BROWN
10
11
Brian HILL
               
Bruce WALKER
11
Substitutes
12
Doug COLLINS

30' 		               
Joe BUTLER
12













Results on Monday, December 27, 1965: League Table
 
  Brighton and Hove Albion 2 - 0 Watford  
  Bristol Rovers 0 - 0 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Exeter City 1 - 1 Swansea Town  
  Grimsby Town 2 - 2 Swindon Town  
  Hull City 1 - 0 Millwall  
  Oxford United 7 - 1 Walsall  
  Reading 2 - 1 Peterborough United  
  Shrewsbury Town 1 - 4 Scunthorpe United  
  York City 3 - 3 Workington  

Table as at Monday, December 27, 1965:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Hull City 22 13 5 4 52 35 1.49 31 
2 Millwall 21 13 4 4 35 19 1.84 30 
3 Grimsby Town 21 10 6 5 40 28 1.43 26 
4 Queens Park Rangers 20 11 3 6 38 31 1.23 25 
5 Oxford United 21 10 4 7 36 29 1.24 24 
6 Workington 20 8 7 5 40 25 1.60 23 
7 Swindon Town 21 8 6 7 39 23 1.70 22 
8 Gillingham 18 9 4 5 26 19 1.37 22 
9 Scunthorpe United 19 10 2 7 34 25 1.36 22 
10 Shrewsbury Town 19 9 4 6 32 26 1.23 22 
11 Watford 20 8 6 6 34 28 1.21 22 
12 Peterborough United 21 9 4 8 37 36 1.03 22 
13 Walsall 19 8 4 7 30 30 1.00 20 
14 Brighton and Hove Albion 21 6 7 8 31 30 1.03 19 
15 Bristol Rovers 23 5 9 9 31 36 0.86 19 
16 Exeter City 21 7 5 9 26 35 0.74 19 
17 Reading 18 6 6 6 26 29 0.90 18 
18 Mansfield Town 17 6 3 8 26 28 0.93 15 
19 Swansea Town 20 6 3 11 32 51 0.63 15 
20 Southend United 20 7 1 12 27 44 0.61 15 
21 York City 21 5 4 12 30 51 0.59 14 
22 Brentford 19 4 5 10 22 23 0.96 13 
23 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 21 3 7 11 17 34 0.50 13 
24 Oldham Athletic 19 3 5 11 24 50 0.48 11 

Key: Promotion Relegation