Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, April 17, 1954

Swindon Town Brighton and Hove Albion

HT: 0-1 B.Moore (29')
Attendance:  12,319   Referee:  R.J. Burgess


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
PAGE
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
JOHNSTON
7
BULL
8
ONSLOW
9
JOHNSON
10
SAMPSON
11
BEARDS
1
GILL
2
FOX
3
LANGLEY
4
BURTENSHAW
5
SOUTH
6
WILSON
7
GORDON
8
SIRREL
9
MOORE
10
LEADBETTER
11
HOWARD

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Eric GILL
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Reg FOX
2
3
Mick PAGE
                 
  Jimmy LANGLEY
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Steve BURTENSHAW
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Alex SOUTH
5
6
Jimmy JOHNSTON
                 
Glen WILSON
6
7
Mike BULL
                 
Denis GORDON
7

8
Roy ONSLOW
                 
Jimmy SIRREL
8

9
Roy JOHNSON
               
Bernard MOORE
9
10
Ray SAMPSON
                 
Jimmy LEADBETTER
10
11
Alan BEARDS
                 
Frankie HOWARD
11















Results on Saturday, April 17, 1954: League Table

 
  Aldershot 4 - 0 Southend United  
  Bristol City 3 - 1 Reading  
  Colchester United 3 - 0 Millwall  
  Crystal Palace 2 - 2 Leyton Orient  
  Exeter City 1 - 0 Northampton Town  
  Newport County 1 - 0 Gillingham  
  Norwich City 2 - 1 Coventry City  
  Queens Park Rangers 2 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Shrewsbury Town 2 - 1 Torquay United  
  Southampton 1 - 1 Ipswich Town  
  Swindon Town 0 - 1 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Walsall 0 - 0 Watford  

Table as at Saturday, April 17, 1954:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Ipswich Town 42 24 9 9 75 48 1.56 57 
2 Brighton and Hove Albion 42 25 7 10 81 56 1.45 57 
3 Bristol City 42 22 6 14 81 60 1.35 50 
4 Watford 41 20 9 12 79 61 1.30 49 
5 Southampton 41 21 5 15 71 57 1.25 47 
6 Northampton Town 41 18 10 13 75 49 1.53 46 
7 Gillingham 43 18 9 16 56 60 0.93 45 
8 Exeter City 43 18 8 17 64 53 1.21 44 
9 Leyton Orient 41 17 10 14 73 65 1.12 44 
10 Reading 43 18 8 17 78 70 1.11 44 
11 Norwich City 40 17 10 13 64 59 1.08 44 
12 Millwall 41 18 8 15 66 68 0.97 44 
13 Torquay United 43 16 11 16 76 81 0.94 43 
14 Southend United 43 17 7 19 68 68 1.00 41 
15 Newport County 42 18 5 19 56 75 0.75 41 
16 Swindon Town 43 15 9 19 66 65 1.02 39 
17 Coventry City 42 15 9 18 54 53 1.02 39 
18 Aldershot 43 15 8 20 67 83 0.81 38 
19 Crystal Palace 43 14 10 19 56 81 0.69 38 
20 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 43 15 7 21 62 66 0.94 37 
21 Shrewsbury Town 42 12 12 18 58 69 0.84 36 
22 Queens Park Rangers 42 13 10 19 52 63 0.83 36 
23 Colchester United 41 10 8 23 47 69 0.68 28 
24 Walsall 43 8 7 28 37 83 0.45 23 

Key: Promotion Re-election