Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, February 23, 1957

Swindon Town Crystal Palace
J.Fountain (11'), B.Edwards (36' pen, 51')
HT: 2-0 B.Pierce (63')
Attendance:  6,499   Referee:  E.T. Jennings


1
BURTON
2
CROSS
3
EARL
4
FOUNTAIN
5
JACK
6
PEMBERY
7
OWEN
8
RICHARDS
9
MICKLEWRIGHT
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY
1
ROUSE
2
EDWARDS
3
NOAKES
4
BELCHER
5
CHOULES
6
LONG
7
HARRISON
8
BERRY
9
DEAKIN
10
PIERCE
11
WHITEAR

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
  Vic ROUSE
1
2
Jim CROSS
                 
Jack EDWARDS
2
3
Stan EARL
                 
Alfie NOAKES
3
4
Jack FOUNTAIN
               
Jimmy BELCHER
4
5
Vince JACK
                 
Len CHOULES
5
6
Gordon PEMBERY
                 
Terry LONG
6
7
Maurice OWEN
                 
Bernie HARRISON
7

8
John RICHARDS
                 
Peter BERRY
8

9
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
                 
Mike DEAKIN
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
             
Barry PIERCE
10
11
Arnold DARCY
                 
John WHITEAR
11















Results on Saturday, February 23, 1957: League Table

 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 1 - 1 Colchester United  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 1 - 0 Southampton  
  Gillingham 2 - 1 Exeter City  
  Ipswich Town 5 - 0 Newport County  
  Millwall 3 - 2 Coventry City  
  Shrewsbury Town 3 - 1 Plymouth Argyle  
  Swindon Town 3 - 1 Crystal Palace  
  Torquay United 7 - 1 Norwich City  
  Walsall 3 - 2 Reading  
  Watford 2 - 4 Queens Park Rangers  

Table as at Saturday, February 23, 1957:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Colchester United 34 18 9 7 70 41 1.71 45 
2 Torquay United 33 17 9 7 66 52 1.27 43 
3 Ipswich Town 33 16 7 10 75 40 1.88 39 
4 Southampton 30 15 6 9 49 31 1.58 36 
5 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 32 13 10 9 61 40 1.53 36 
6 Northampton Town 33 14 8 11 54 44 1.23 36 
7 Shrewsbury Town 32 11 14 7 51 52 0.98 36 
8 Walsall 34 12 11 11 63 52 1.21 35 
9 Reading 32 14 7 11 60 53 1.13 35 
10 Brighton and Hove Albion 34 13 9 12 58 54 1.07 35 
11 Queens Park Rangers 32 13 9 10 46 43 1.07 35 
12 Millwall 30 13 6 11 52 61 0.85 32 
13 Newport County 29 10 11 8 39 35 1.11 31 
14 Gillingham 34 10 11 13 47 60 0.78 31 
15 Southend United 31 11 8 12 47 48 0.98 30 
16 Watford 32 12 5 15 56 58 0.97 29 
17 Aldershot 32 11 7 14 58 68 0.85 29 
18 Brentford 31 10 9 12 49 59 0.83 29 
19 Plymouth Argyle 32 10 7 15 46 56 0.82 27 
20 Crystal Palace 32 8 11 13 44 54 0.81 27 
21 Exeter City 33 8 10 15 42 55 0.76 26 
22 Coventry City 32 9 8 15 46 65 0.71 26 
23 Swindon Town 33 11 3 19 52 80 0.65 25 
24 Norwich City 34 5 11 18 44 74 0.59 21 

Key: Promotion Re-election