Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, April 15, 1953

Ipswich Town Swindon Town
T.Brown (??')
 HT: 0-1 W.Millar (??')
Attendance:  5,478   Referee:  W.E. Dellow


1
PARRY
2
ACRES
3
FEENEY
4
MYLES
5
CLARKE
6
MURCHISON
7
JONES
8
BROWN
9
REES
10
PARKER
11
BALL
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
JOHNSTON
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
LUNN
8
BETTERIDGE
9
OWEN
10
MILLAR
11
BAIN

Lineups
1
Jack PARRY  
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Basil ACRES
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Jim FEENEY  
                 
Terry ELWELL
3
4
Neil MYLES
                 
Jimmy JOHNSTON
4
5
George CLARKE
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Ron MURCHISON
                 
Gordon WILLIAMS
6
7
Willie JONES
                 
Harry LUNN
7

8
Tommy BROWN
               
Mick BETTERIDGE
8

9
Doug REES
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Tommy PARKER
               
William MILLAR
10
11
Joe BALL
                 
Jimmy BAIN
11













Results on Wednesday, April 15, 1953: League Table
 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 - 0 Shrewsbury Town  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 1 - 0 Millwall  
  Crystal Palace 2 - 0 Exeter City  
  Ipswich Town 1 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Torquay United 4 - 1 Norwich City  

Table as at Wednesday, April 15, 1953:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bristol Rovers 41 25 10 6 88 42 2.10 60 
2 Millwall 41 22 11 8 74 40 1.85 55 
3 Northampton Town 41 23 8 10 95 63 1.51 54 
4 Norwich City 41 22 8 11 88 52 1.69 52 
5 Bristol City 41 19 14 8 86 57 1.51 52 
6 Coventry City 41 19 10 12 72 54 1.33 48 
7 Watford 41 15 14 12 59 58 1.02 44 
8 Southend United 41 17 10 14 62 65 0.95 44 
9 Brighton and Hove Albion 42 16 11 15 71 73 0.97 43 
10 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 41 17 8 16 66 63 1.05 42 
11 Reading 41 16 8 17 58 58 1.00 40 
12 Torquay United 42 16 8 18 77 80 0.96 40 
13 Ipswich Town 42 12 14 16 57 64 0.89 38 
14 Newport County 42 14 10 18 66 76 0.87 38 
15 Colchester United 39 12 13 14 53 55 0.96 37 
16 Leyton Orient 41 14 9 18 56 63 0.89 37 
17 Crystal Palace 41 13 11 17 61 77 0.79 37 
18 Exeter City 43 11 14 18 58 70 0.83 36 
19 Gillingham 41 11 14 16 50 62 0.81 36 
20 Swindon Town 42 12 11 19 57 72 0.79 35 
21 Aldershot 40 10 14 16 54 65 0.83 34 
22 Shrewsbury Town 42 11 11 20 62 83 0.75 33 
23 Queens Park Rangers 41 9 15 17 58 79 0.73 33 
24 Walsall 42 7 8 27 51 108 0.47 22 

Key: Promotion Re-election