Football League Division Three
Friday, October 13, 1961

Swindon Town Reading
R.Hunt (1'), E.Hunt (54'), A.Darcy (55', 63')
 HT: 1-0 J.Whitehouse (88')
Attendance:  17,301   Referee:  K.H. Burns


1
BURTON
2
JONES
3
TROLLOPE
4
MORGAN
5
OWEN
6
WOODRUFF
7
SUMMERBEE
8
HUNT
9
MCPHERSON
10
HUNT
11
DARCY
1
WILKIE
2
GOODALL
3
HIGH
4
WALKER
5
SPIERS
6
EVANS
7
NORTON
8
WHITEHOUSE
9
ALLEN
10
WHEELER
11
WEBB

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Arthur WILKIE
1
2
Ken JONES
                 
Bernard GOODALL
2
3
John TROLLOPE
                 
David HIGH
3
4
Keith MORGAN
                 
Johnny WALKER
4
5
Maurice OWEN
                 
Dick SPIERS
5
6
Bobby WOODRUFF
                 
Maurice EVANS
6
7
Mike SUMMERBEE  
                 
Ralph NORTON
7

8
Ernie HUNT
             
Jimmy WHITEHOUSE
8

9
Ken MCPHERSON
                 
Dennis ALLEN
9
10
Ralph HUNT
               
Jimmy WHEELER
10
11
Arnold DARCY
               
Duggie WEBB
11















Results on Friday, October 13, 1961: League Table
 
  Swindon Town 4 - 1 Reading  

Table as at Friday, October 13, 1961:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 15 8 6 1 30 15 2.00 22 
2 Portsmouth 14 8 5 1 23 13 1.77 21 
3 Peterborough United 15 10 1 4 39 32 1.22 21 
4 Reading 16 9 1 6 33 30 1.10 19 
5 Grimsby Town 15 8 2 5 24 17 1.41 18 
6 Port Vale 15 7 4 4 22 18 1.22 18 
7 Bristol City 15 7 2 6 20 15 1.33 16 
8 Queens Park Rangers 13 6 3 4 35 24 1.46 15 
9 Hull City 14 5 5 4 21 17 1.24 15 
10 Crystal Palace 15 5 5 5 30 25 1.20 15 
11 Notts County 15 6 3 6 31 26 1.19 15 
12 Shrewsbury Town 14 5 5 4 26 24 1.08 15 
13 Watford 15 5 5 5 26 27 0.96 15 
14 Coventry City 14 5 4 5 23 23 1.00 14 
15 Halifax Town 13 6 2 5 22 23 0.96 14 
16 Northampton Town 15 5 3 7 22 22 1.00 13 
17 Southend United 14 4 5 5 17 17 1.00 13 
18 Swindon Town 16 4 5 7 23 31 0.74 13 
19 Bradford Park Avenue 13 6 0 7 26 26 1.00 12 
20 Barnsley 15 5 2 8 28 37 0.76 12 
21 Lincoln City 14 4 4 6 20 30 0.67 12 
22 Torquay United 14 3 1 10 24 34 0.71 7 
23 Brentford 15 3 1 11 10 32 0.31 7 
24 Newport County 14 2 2 10 19 36 0.53 6 

Key: Promotion Relegation