Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, March 18, 1939

Swindon Town Reading
S.Wilcockson (11'), A.Barraclough (28'), B.Morton (85'), E.Jones (88')
 HT: 2-2 T.Tait (23'), T.MacPhee (44')
Attendance:  12,441   Referee:  G.H. Hann


1
BRYAN
2
PARKHOUSE
3
BUTCHER
4
COUSINS
5
MORRALL
6
WILCOCKSON
7
JONES
8
FRANCIS
9
MORTON
10
LUCAS
11
BARRACLOUGH
1
WHITTAKER
2
ORDISH
3
FULLWOOD
4
SHERWOOD
5
WALLBANKS
6
BROWN
7
DORAN
8
TAIT
9
MACPHEE
10
DEVERALL
11
SMALLWOOD

Lineups
1
Billy BRYAN
                 
Percy WHITTAKER
1
2
Dick PARKHOUSE
                 
Cyril ORDISH
2
3
Fred BUTCHER
                 
James FULLWOOD
3
4
Harry COUSINS
                 
Jack SHERWOOD
4
5
George MORRALL
                 
Jimmy WALLBANKS
5
6
Stan WILCOCKSON
               
Harry BROWN
6
7
Eddie JONES
               
Sam DORAN
7

8
Cliff FRANCIS
               
Tommy TAIT
8

9
Ben MORTON
             
Tony MACPHEE
9
10
Billy LUCAS
                 
Jackie DEVERALL
10
11
Arthur BARRACLOUGH
               
Fred SMALLWOOD
11













Results on Saturday, March 18, 1939: League Table
 
  Aldershot 2 - 0 Queens Park Rangers  
  Bristol City 1 - 0 Southend United  
  Crystal Palace 3 - 2 Exeter City  
  Leyton Orient 2 - 0 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Newport County 2 - 2 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Northampton Town 4 - 1 Walsall  
  Notts County 1 - 1 Mansfield Town  
  Port Vale 0 - 0 Ipswich Town  
  Swindon Town 4 - 2 Reading  
  Torquay United 2 - 2 Bristol Rovers  
  Watford 1 - 0 Cardiff City  

Table as at Saturday, March 18, 1939:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Newport County 34 20 7 7 52 36 1.44 47 
2 Brighton and Hove Albion 33 15 8 10 53 39 1.36 38 
3 Reading 34 13 12 9 60 47 1.28 38 
4 Crystal Palace 32 15 8 9 55 44 1.25 38 
5 Queens Park Rangers 32 14 9 9 63 41 1.54 37 
6 Watford 33 15 7 11 52 40 1.30 37 
7 Bristol City 33 14 8 11 50 47 1.06 36 
8 Notts County 31 14 7 10 46 36 1.28 35 
9 Swindon Town 32 14 7 11 62 53 1.17 35 
10 Aldershot 32 12 10 10 38 47 0.81 34 
11 Northampton Town 33 14 5 14 49 49 1.00 33 
12 Cardiff City 32 12 8 12 46 48 0.96 32 
13 Torquay United 32 11 8 13 44 52 0.85 30 
14 Exeter City 32 10 9 13 54 70 0.77 29 
15 Mansfield Town 33 10 9 14 38 56 0.68 29 
16 Southend United 29 11 6 12 47 51 0.92 28 
17 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 32 9 10 13 38 50 0.76 28 
18 Ipswich Town 30 9 9 12 38 42 0.90 27 
19 Port Vale 32 10 7 15 41 47 0.87 27 
20 Bristol Rovers 32 7 10 15 37 43 0.86 24 
21 Leyton Orient 31 8 8 15 36 42 0.86 24 
22 Walsall 32 6 8 18 39 58 0.67 20 

Key: Promotion Re-election