Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, October 16, 1948

Torquay United Swindon Town
A.Cowie (26' o.g.), S.Collins (50', 71')
HT: 1-1 M.Owen (20')
Attendance:  7,727   Referee:  B.M. Griffiths


1
MCFEAT
2
STUTTARD
3
CALLAND
4
TOWERS
5
HEAD
6
HILL
7
LEWIS
8
COLLINS
9
CONLEY
10
GRIFFITHS
11
CAMERON
1
BOULTON
2
HUNT
3
YOUNG
4
COWIE
5
HUDSON
6
PAINTER
7
LUNN
8
DAWSON
9
OWEN
10
JONES
11
BAIN

Lineups
1
Archie MCFEAT
                 
Frank BOULTON
1
2
Ellis STUTTARD
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Ralph CALLAND
                 
Albert YOUNG
3
4
Bill TOWERS
                 
Andy COWIE
4
5
Bert HEAD view STFC profile
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Midge HILL view STFC profile
                 
Edward PAINTER
6
7
Dennis LEWIS
                 
Harry LUNN
7

8
Sammy COLLINS
               
Tom DAWSON
8

9
Jack CONLEY
               
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Kenny GRIFFITHS
                 
Morris JONES
10
11
Hugh CAMERON
                 
Jimmy BAIN
11















Results on Saturday, October 16, 1948: League Table

 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 5 - 2 Northampton Town  
  Bristol Rovers 2 - 3 Leyton Orient  
  Crystal Palace 0 - 2 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Ipswich Town 1 - 2 Norwich City  
  Newport County 2 - 2 Port Vale  
  Notts County 9 - 0 Exeter City  
  Reading 2 - 0 Aldershot  
  Swansea Town 2 - 0 Millwall  
  Torquay United 3 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Walsall 0 - 1 Bristol City  
  Watford 0 - 0 Southend United  

Table as at Saturday, October 16, 1948:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Swansea Town 14 10 3 1 34 8 4.25 23 
2 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 15 9 3 3 22 15 1.47 21 
3 Notts County 14 6 3 5 44 24 1.83 15 
4 Bristol Rovers 14 7 1 6 23 23 1.00 15 
5 Millwall 15 4 7 4 22 23 0.96 15 
6 Brighton and Hove Albion 13 5 5 3 13 14 0.93 15 
7 Exeter City 14 6 3 5 24 27 0.89 15 
8 Torquay United 13 6 3 4 19 23 0.83 15 
9 Swindon Town 15 6 3 6 20 28 0.71 15 
10 Port Vale 13 5 4 4 18 13 1.38 14 
11 Norwich City 13 5 3 5 19 16 1.19 13 
12 Southend United 13 3 7 3 10 9 1.11 13 
13 Ipswich Town 13 5 3 5 31 29 1.07 13 
14 Leyton Orient 13 4 5 4 22 24 0.92 13 
15 Aldershot 14 5 2 7 21 19 1.11 12 
16 Reading 13 5 2 6 26 24 1.08 12 
17 Walsall 13 5 2 6 16 19 0.84 12 
18 Watford 14 2 7 5 14 18 0.78 11 
19 Northampton Town 13 4 3 6 18 24 0.75 11 
20 Bristol City 13 4 3 6 12 17 0.71 11 
21 Newport County 13 1 5 7 21 34 0.62
22 Crystal Palace 13 2 3 8 10 28 0.36

Key: Promotion Re-election