Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, January 26, 1957

Swindon Town Brighton and Hove Albion
M.Owen (21', 43'), A.Darcy (49')
 HT: 2-0
Attendance:  8,003   Referee:  L. Callaghan


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
EARL
4
CROSS
5
JACK
6
FOUNTAIN
7
OWEN
8
PEMBERY
9
MICKLEWRIGHT
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY
1
GILL
2
THOMAS
3
LANGLEY
4
TENNANT
5
WHITFIELD
6
WILSON
7
NEATE
8
MUNDY
9
HARBURN
10
FOREMAN
11
HOWARD

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Eric GILL
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Rees THOMAS
2
3
Stan EARL
                 
  Jimmy LANGLEY
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Des TENNANT
4
5
Vince JACK
                 
Ken WHITFIELD
5
6
Jack FOUNTAIN
                 
Glen WILSON
6
7
Maurice OWEN
               
Derek NEATE
7

8
Gordon PEMBERY
                 
Albert MUNDY
8

9
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
                 
Peter HARBURN
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
                 
Denis FOREMAN
10
11
Arnold DARCY
               
Frankie HOWARD
11















Results on Saturday, January 26, 1957: League Table
 
  Aldershot 0 - 1 Torquay United  
  Coventry City 2 - 4 Colchester United  
  Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Plymouth Argyle  
  Exeter City 1 - 1 Reading  
  Gillingham 1 - 2 Northampton Town  
  Ipswich Town 5 - 1 Shrewsbury Town  
  Swindon Town 3 - 0 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Walsall 6 - 3 Norwich City  

Table as at Saturday, January 26, 1957:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Colchester United 30 16 7 7 65 39 1.67 39 
2 Torquay United 29 15 8 6 49 47 1.04 38 
3 Southampton 27 15 6 6 47 26 1.81 36 
4 Ipswich Town 29 14 5 10 65 38 1.71 33 
5 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 28 11 9 8 53 36 1.47 31 
6 Northampton Town 30 12 7 11 48 43 1.12 31 
7 Shrewsbury Town 28 9 13 6 42 44 0.95 31 
8 Walsall 30 10 10 10 55 44 1.25 30 
9 Reading 28 12 6 10 48 46 1.04 30 
10 Queens Park Rangers 28 10 9 9 35 36 0.97 29 
11 Newport County 25 9 10 6 34 26 1.31 28 
12 Watford 28 12 4 12 49 46 1.07 28 
13 Brighton and Hove Albion 30 10 8 12 50 50 1.00 28 
14 Brentford 28 10 8 10 47 50 0.94 28 
15 Millwall 27 11 6 10 45 55 0.82 28 
16 Southend United 28 10 7 11 45 45 1.00 27 
17 Gillingham 30 8 10 12 41 55 0.75 26 
18 Aldershot 29 9 7 13 52 63 0.83 25 
19 Crystal Palace 28 7 11 10 40 48 0.83 25 
20 Exeter City 29 8 9 12 37 45 0.82 25 
21 Coventry City 28 8 8 12 40 53 0.75 24 
22 Plymouth Argyle 28 8 6 14 36 48 0.75 22 
23 Norwich City 30 5 11 14 39 56 0.70 21 
24 Swindon Town 29 9 3 17 47 70 0.67 21 

Key: Promotion Re-election