Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, April 29, 1950

Swindon Town Leyton Orient

HT: 0-1 J.Blair (30')
Attendance:  5,522   Referee:  R.J. Burgess


1
BURTON
2
FOXTON
3
LLOYD
4
COWIE
5
HUDSON
6
KAYE
7
WHEELER
8
JONES
9
SIMNER
10
JACKSON
11
BAIN
1
WELTON
2
WALTON
3
BANNER
4
TAYLOR
5
ROONEY
6
TRAILOR
7
MCEWAN
8
BLAIR
9
PULLEN
10
DEVERALL
11
PATTISON

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Pat WELTON
1
2
Jack FOXTON
                 
Dick WALTON
2
3
Billy LLOYD
                 
Arthur BANNER
3
4
Andy COWIE
                 
Archie TAYLOR
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Bob ROONEY
5
6
Harry KAYE
                 
Cyril TRAILOR
6
7
Alf WHEELER
                 
Billy MCEWAN
7

8
Morris JONES
               
  Jimmy BLAIR
8

9
Joe SIMNER
                 
Wally PULLEN
9
10
Pat JACKSON
                 
Jackie DEVERALL
10
11
Jimmy BAIN
                 
Johnny PATTISON
11















Results on Saturday, April 29, 1950: League Table

 
  Aldershot 5 - 0 Ipswich Town  
  Bristol City 3 - 2 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Millwall 3 - 1 Reading  
  Newport County 2 - 3 Bristol Rovers  
  Northampton Town 5 - 1 Notts County  
  Norwich City 0 - 0 Southend United  
  Nottingham Forest 2 - 0 Port Vale  
  Swindon Town 0 - 1 Leyton Orient  
  Torquay United 1 - 4 Exeter City  
  Walsall 1 - 1 Watford  

Table as at Saturday, April 29, 1950:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Notts County 41 25 7 9 93 48 1.94 57 
2 Northampton Town 41 20 10 11 72 50 1.44 50 
3 Nottingham Forest 42 20 9 13 67 39 1.72 49 
4 Southend United 40 19 11 10 63 45 1.40 49 
5 Torquay United 42 19 10 13 66 63 1.05 48 
6 Watford 42 16 13 13 45 35 1.29 45 
7 Crystal Palace 41 15 14 12 54 51 1.06 44 
8 Reading 41 17 8 16 70 63 1.11 42 
9 Norwich City 41 16 10 15 65 61 1.07 42 
10 Brighton and Hove Albion 41 15 12 14 56 69 0.81 42 
11 Port Vale 41 15 11 15 46 40 1.15 41 
12 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 41 15 10 16 55 56 0.98 40 
13 Bristol Rovers 40 18 4 18 50 51 0.98 40 
14 Swindon Town 41 15 10 16 58 61 0.95 40 
15 Bristol City 41 15 9 17 59 60 0.98 39 
16 Exeter City 41 14 10 17 61 73 0.84 38 
17 Leyton Orient 41 12 10 19 51 83 0.61 34 
18 Aldershot 41 13 7 21 47 59 0.80 33 
19 Ipswich Town 41 11 11 19 55 85 0.65 33 
20 Walsall 41 8 16 17 58 61 0.95 32 
21 Millwall 40 14 4 22 54 60 0.90 32 
22 Newport County 41 12 8 21 65 97 0.67 32 

Key: Promotion Re-election