Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, March 7, 1953

Brighton and Hove Albion Swindon Town
K.Bennett (19')
HT: 1-2 M.Owen (11'), M.Betteridge (18')
Attendance:  12,824   Referee:  R.J. Burgess


1
GILL
2
TENNANT
3
MCLAFFERTY
4
WILLARD
5
SOUTH
6
WILSON
7
GORDON
8
BENNETT
9
ADDINALL
10
SIRREL
11
KEENE
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
GRAY
5
BATCHELOR
6
PROUTON
7
LUNN
8
BETTERIDGE
9
OWEN
10
PARKER
11
BRANDON

Lineups
1
Eric GILL
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Des TENNANT
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Maurice MCLAFFERTY
                 
Terry ELWELL
3
4
Jess WILLARD
                 
George GRAY
4
5
Alex SOUTH
                 
Ted BATCHELOR
5
6
Glen WILSON
                 
Ralph PROUTON
6
7
Denis GORDON
                 
Harry LUNN
7

8
Ken BENNETT
             
Mick BETTERIDGE
8

9
Bert ADDINALL
               
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Jimmy SIRREL
                 
William PARKER
10
11
Doug KEENE
                 
Ken BRANDON
11















Results on Saturday, March 7, 1953: League Table

 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 0 - 0 Norwich City  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 1 - 2 Swindon Town  
  Bristol City 6 - 1 Walsall  
  Crystal Palace 1 - 2 Shrewsbury Town  
  Ipswich Town 0 - 1 Exeter City  
  Leyton Orient 3 - 3 Bristol Rovers  
  Newport County 2 - 0 Queens Park Rangers  
  Northampton Town 1 - 1 Millwall  
  Reading 1 - 0 Coventry City  
  Southend United 4 - 0 Colchester United  
  Torquay United 3 - 2 Gillingham  
  Watford 1 - 1 Aldershot  

Table as at Saturday, March 7, 1953:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bristol Rovers 33 22 9 2 76 29 2.62 53 
2 Bristol City 34 18 10 6 78 45 1.73 46 
3 Northampton Town 33 19 6 8 81 51 1.59 44 
4 Norwich City 33 18 7 8 67 36 1.86 43 
5 Millwall 33 17 9 7 57 34 1.68 43 
6 Coventry City 34 17 8 9 65 46 1.41 42 
7 Southend United 34 14 8 12 53 55 0.96 36 
8 Watford 34 12 12 10 48 51 0.94 36 
9 Brighton and Hove Albion 34 12 9 13 56 62 0.90 33 
10 Ipswich Town 33 11 10 12 46 47 0.98 32 
11 Exeter City 35 10 12 13 50 53 0.94 32 
12 Reading 33 12 7 14 47 50 0.94 31 
13 Aldershot 33 10 11 12 49 55 0.89 31 
14 Gillingham 34 10 11 13 39 49 0.80 31 
15 Queens Park Rangers 34 9 13 12 49 63 0.78 31 
16 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 33 12 6 15 50 54 0.93 30 
17 Colchester United 31 10 9 12 40 44 0.91 29 
18 Shrewsbury Town 34 10 9 15 53 65 0.82 29 
19 Torquay United 34 10 8 16 60 72 0.83 28 
20 Newport County 34 11 6 17 55 66 0.83 28 
21 Leyton Orient 32 11 5 16 48 54 0.89 27 
22 Swindon Town 33 9 8 16 46 60 0.77 26 
23 Crystal Palace 32 9 8 15 48 65 0.74 26 
24 Walsall 35 4 7 24 42 97 0.43 15 

Key: Promotion Re-election