Football League Division Three (South)
Friday, May 1, 1953

Reading Swindon Town
D.Uphill (20', 64'), J.Lewis (~44' pen, 79' pen)
 HT: 2-0 W.Millar (??')
Attendance:  7,188   Referee:  J.C. Pollard


1
MARKS
2
SMITH
3
REEVES
4
ROBSHAW
5
WICKS
6
LEWIS
7
HINSHELWOOD
8
UPHILL
9
BLACKMAN
10
MCLEAN
11
WHEELER
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
JOHNSTON
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
LUNN
8
BETTERIDGE
9
OWEN
10
MILLAR
11
BAIN

Lineups
1
George MARKS
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Eric SMITH
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Ray REEVES
                 
Terry ELWELL
3
4
Harry ROBSHAW
                 
Jimmy JOHNSTON
4
5
Stan WICKS
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Jack LEWIS
               
Gordon WILLIAMS
6
7
Wally HINSHELWOOD
                 
Harry LUNN
7

8
Dennis UPHILL
               
Mick BETTERIDGE
8

9
Ronnie BLACKMAN
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Peter MCLEAN
               
William MILLAR
10
11
Jimmy WHEELER
                 
Jimmy BAIN
11















Results on Friday, May 1, 1953: League Table
 
  Crystal Palace 1 - 0 Bristol Rovers  
  Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Aldershot  
  Reading 4 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Southend United 2 - 2 Shrewsbury Town  

Table as at Friday, May 1, 1953:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bristol Rovers 46 26 12 8 92 46 2.00 64 
2 Millwall 46 24 14 8 82 44 1.86 62 
3 Northampton Town 46 26 10 10 109 70 1.56 62 
4 Bristol City 46 22 15 9 95 61 1.56 59 
5 Norwich City 45 24 10 11 95 55 1.73 58 
6 Coventry City 45 19 12 14 76 60 1.27 50 
7 Southend United 46 18 13 15 69 74 0.93 49 
8 Brighton and Hove Albion 45 18 12 15 76 75 1.01 48 
9 Watford 46 15 17 14 62 63 0.98 47 
10 Reading 46 19 8 19 69 64 1.08 46 
11 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 45 18 9 18 73 69 1.06 45 
12 Torquay United 45 17 9 19 85 87 0.98 43 
13 Crystal Palace 46 15 13 18 66 82 0.80 43 
14 Leyton Orient 46 16 10 20 68 73 0.93 42 
15 Newport County 46 16 10 20 70 82 0.85 42 
16 Ipswich Town 46 13 15 18 60 69 0.87 41 
17 Exeter City 46 13 14 19 61 71 0.86 40 
18 Swindon Town 46 14 12 20 64 79 0.81 40 
19 Gillingham 45 12 15 18 55 69 0.80 39 
20 Aldershot 46 12 15 19 61 77 0.79 39 
21 Queens Park Rangers 45 12 15 18 61 81 0.75 39 
22 Colchester United 45 12 14 19 59 72 0.82 38 
23 Shrewsbury Town 46 12 12 22 68 91 0.75 36 
24 Walsall 46 7 10 29 56 118 0.47 24 

Key: Promotion Re-election