Football League Division Three
Saturday, April 4, 1959

Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Swindon Town
M.Burgess (5', 88'), D.Dowsett (40')
HT: 2-2 B.Edwards (23', 41'), A.Woollard (46' o.g.)
Attendance:  9,546   Referee:  D.T. Bates


1
GODWIN
2
LYONS
3
WOOLLARD
4
ARNOTT
5
NELSON
6
BROWN
7
SOUTHREN
8
STANDLEY
9
DOWSETT
10
BURGESS
11
BUMSTEAD
1
CHANDLER
2
NEAL
3
BINGLEY
4
FOUNTAIN
5
CHAMBERLAIN
6
TILLEY
7
STEPHENS
8
RICHARDS
9
MARSHALL
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Tommy GODWIN  
                 
Ray CHANDLER
1
2
Mike LYONS view STFC profile
                 
John NEAL
2
3
Arnold WOOLLARD
                 
Walter BINGLEY
3
4
John ARNOTT
                 
Jack FOUNTAIN
4
5
Tony NELSON
                 
Peter CHAMBERLAIN
5
6
Joe BROWN
                 
Rex TILLEY
6
7
Tommy SOUTHREN
                 
John STEPHENS
7

8
Tommy STANDLEY
                 
John RICHARDS
8

9
Dickie DOWSETT
               
William MARSHALL
9
10
Mike BURGESS
             
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Ray BUMSTEAD
                 
Arnold DARCY
11















Results on Saturday, April 4, 1959: League Table

 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 3 - 3 Swindon Town  
  Bury 2 - 2 Bradford City  
  Colchester United 1 - 3 Mansfield Town  
  Doncaster Rovers 3 - 0 Accrington Stanley  
  Norwich City 4 - 1 Brentford  
  Plymouth Argyle 1 - 1 Halifax Town  
  Queens Park Rangers 5 - 0 Wrexham  
  Reading 3 - 1 Notts County  
  Rochdale 1 - 0 Southampton  
  Southend United 1 - 1 Hull City  
  Stockport County 1 - 1 Chesterfield  
  Tranmere Rovers 2 - 1 Newport County  

Table as at Saturday, April 4, 1959:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Plymouth Argyle 41 21 13 7 84 56 1.50 55 
2 Hull City 40 23 8 9 82 46 1.78 54 
3 Brentford 39 18 13 8 64 41 1.56 49 
4 Reading 40 19 8 13 68 52 1.31 46 
5 Tranmere Rovers 42 19 7 16 70 62 1.13 45 
6 Norwich City 36 17 10 9 70 50 1.40 44 
7 Southend United 40 18 8 14 72 66 1.09 44 
8 Bury 41 16 11 14 63 51 1.24 43 
9 Southampton 41 16 10 15 82 70 1.17 42 
10 Colchester United 40 16 10 14 61 61 1.00 42 
11 Queens Park Rangers 40 17 7 16 68 72 0.94 41 
12 Accrington Stanley 41 15 10 16 67 67 1.00 40 
13 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 41 15 10 16 62 66 0.94 40 
14 Halifax Town 38 16 7 15 62 69 0.90 39 
15 Chesterfield 41 14 10 17 63 61 1.03 38 
16 Bradford City 41 14 10 17 75 75 1.00 38 
17 Mansfield Town 39 14 10 15 67 84 0.80 38 
18 Swindon Town 39 13 10 16 49 50 0.98 36 
19 Newport County 40 14 8 18 60 63 0.95 36 
20 Stockport County 40 12 9 19 59 70 0.84 33 
21 Wrexham 38 11 11 16 51 67 0.76 33 
22 Doncaster Rovers 42 14 3 25 48 83 0.58 31 
23 Notts County 41 8 12 21 52 83 0.63 28 
24 Rochdale 41 8 11 22 36 70 0.51 27 

Key: Promotion Relegation