Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, April 20, 1957

Swindon Town Southampton

HT: 0-0
Attendance:  10,515   Referee:  J.J. Baxter


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
EARL
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
FOUNTAIN
7
RICHARDS
8
PEMBERY
9
MICKLEWRIGHT
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY
1
CHRISTIE
2
WILKINS
3
ROPER
4
MCGOWAN
5
PARKER
6
ELLIOTT
7
DAY
8
MULGREW
9
SHIELDS
10
WALKER
11
PAINE

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
John CHRISTIE
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Len WILKINS
2
3
Stan EARL
                 
Don ROPER
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Jimmy MCGOWAN
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Pat PARKER
5
6
Jack FOUNTAIN
                 
Bryn ELLIOTT
6
7
John RICHARDS
                 
Eric DAY
7

8
Gordon PEMBERY
                 
Tommy MULGREW
8

9
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
                 
  Jimmy SHIELDS
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
                 
Johnny WALKER
10
11
Arnold DARCY
                 
  Terry PAINE
11















Results on Saturday, April 20, 1957: League Table
 
  Aldershot 2 - 1 Crystal Palace  
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 - 1 Reading  
  Brentford 3 - 0 Exeter City  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 3 - 0 Norwich City  
  Gillingham 1 - 2 Coventry City  
  Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Plymouth Argyle  
  Millwall 3 - 1 Colchester United  
  Shrewsbury Town 2 - 0 Northampton Town  
  Swindon Town 0 - 0 Southampton  
  Torquay United 4 - 0 Newport County  
  Walsall 0 - 2 Queens Park Rangers  
  Watford 1 - 1 Southend United  

Table as at Saturday, April 20, 1957:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Colchester United 43 21 14 8 80 50 1.60 56 
2 Torquay United 43 23 10 10 85 62 1.37 56 
3 Ipswich Town 43 23 8 12 93 50 1.86 54 
4 Southampton 42 20 10 12 70 46 1.52 50 
5 Brighton and Hove Albion 43 18 13 12 77 60 1.28 49 
6 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 42 16 14 12 76 56 1.36 46 
7 Brentford 43 16 14 13 75 71 1.06 46 
8 Queens Park Rangers 43 17 10 16 54 55 0.98 44 
9 Shrewsbury Town 42 13 18 11 66 72 0.92 44 
10 Reading 43 17 9 17 74 71 1.04 43 
11 Southend United 43 16 11 16 64 62 1.03 43 
12 Walsall 43 15 12 16 75 68 1.10 42 
13 Newport County 42 15 12 15 61 56 1.09 42 
14 Watford 42 16 10 16 66 66 1.00 42 
15 Millwall 43 16 10 17 61 80 0.76 42 
16 Northampton Town 42 16 9 17 62 65 0.95 41 
17 Aldershot 43 15 11 17 77 86 0.90 41 
18 Coventry City 44 14 12 18 69 82 0.84 40 
19 Plymouth Argyle 43 15 9 19 63 69 0.91 39 
20 Crystal Palace 43 10 16 17 58 72 0.81 36 
21 Gillingham 43 12 12 19 53 74 0.72 36 
22 Exeter City 43 11 12 20 57 75 0.76 34 
23 Swindon Town 42 13 6 23 58 92 0.63 32 
24 Norwich City 43 7 14 22 56 90 0.62 28 

Key: Promotion Re-election