Football League Division Three
Friday, March 8, 1963

Reading Swindon Town
J.Wheeler (8')
HT: 1-0 E.Hunt (66' pen, 76')
Attendance:  16,126   Referee:  J.K. Taylor


1
WILKIE
2
WALKER
3
HIGH
4
PETTS
5
SPIERS
6
EVANS
7
PALETHORPE
8
WHEELER
9
TINDALL
10
SHREEVES
11
WEBB
1
O'HARA
2
DAWSON
3
TROLLOPE
4
MORGAN
5
MCPHERSON
6
WOODRUFF
7
SUMMERBEE
8
HUNT
9
SMITH
10
JACKSON
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Arthur WILKIE
                 
Mike O'HARA
1
2
Johnny WALKER
                 
Owen DAWSON
2
3
David HIGH
                 
John TROLLOPE
3
4
John PETTS
                 
Keith MORGAN
4
5
Dick SPIERS
                 
Ken MCPHERSON
5
6
Maurice EVANS
                 
Bobby WOODRUFF
6
7
Chris PALETHORPE
                 
  Mike SUMMERBEE
7

8
Jimmy WHEELER
             
Ernie HUNT
8

9
Ron TINDALL
                 
Jack SMITH
9
10
Peter SHREEVES
                 
Cliff JACKSON
10
11
Duggie WEBB
                 
Arnold DARCY
11















Results on Friday, March 8, 1963: League Table

 
  Colchester United 1 - 1 Wrexham  
  Reading 1 - 2 Swindon Town  

Table as at Friday, March 8, 1963:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Swindon Town 30 14 10 6 60 37 1.62 38 
2 Peterborough United 30 15 7 8 72 49 1.47 37 
3 Coventry City 28 11 12 5 53 42 1.26 34 
4 Northampton Town 27 12 8 7 57 40 1.43 32 
5 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 27 11 10 6 37 27 1.37 32 
6 Notts County 27 13 6 8 40 42 0.95 32 
7 Watford 28 14 3 11 62 51 1.22 31 
8 Wrexham 28 13 5 10 55 54 1.02 31 
9 Queens Park Rangers 27 12 6 9 54 41 1.32 30 
10 Southend United 27 13 4 10 47 47 1.00 30 
11 Hull City 26 12 5 9 49 42 1.17 29 
12 Shrewsbury Town 28 10 8 10 62 56 1.11 28 
13 Port Vale 26 10 7 9 36 33 1.09 27 
14 Bristol Rovers 27 11 5 11 46 52 0.88 27 
15 Bristol City 28 9 8 11 60 58 1.03 26 
16 Brighton and Hove Albion 32 8 9 15 46 63 0.73 25 
17 Colchester United 28 7 10 11 46 60 0.77 24 
18 Barnsley 26 9 5 12 36 40 0.90 23 
19 Millwall 26 6 11 9 49 55 0.89 23 
20 Bradford Park Avenue 27 7 9 11 41 56 0.73 23 
21 Halifax Town 27 6 9 12 36 57 0.63 21 
22 Reading 27 9 2 16 46 51 0.90 20 
23 Crystal Palace 26 5 9 12 28 42 0.67 19 
24 Carlisle United 25 4 8 13 30 53 0.57 16 

Key: Promotion Relegation