Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, October 15, 1955

Leyton Orient Swindon Town
R.Heckman (11'), K.Facey (30', 34', 64')
HT: 3-0
Attendance:  14,713   Referee:  H.L. Broadhurst


1
WELTON
2
LEE
3
CHARLTON
4
MCMAHON
5
ALDOUS
6
MCKNIGHT
7
FACEY
8
WOOSNAM
9
GROVES
10
HECKMAN
11
HARTBURN
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
FOX
4
MCSHANE
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
GIBSON
8
ONSLOW
9
OWEN
10
MICKLEWRIGHT
11
EDWARDS

Lineups
1
Pat WELTON
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Jimmy LEE view STFC profile
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Stan CHARLTON
                 
Geoff FOX
3
4
Peter MCMAHON
                 
Anthony MCSHANE
4
5
Stan ALDOUS
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Phil MCKNIGHT
                 
Gordon WILLIAMS
6
7
Ken FACEY
               
Dave GIBSON
7

8
Phil WOOSNAM  
                 
Roy ONSLOW
8

9
Vic GROVES
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Ron HECKMAN
               
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
10
11
Johnny HARTBURN
                 
Bob EDWARDS
11















Results on Saturday, October 15, 1955: League Table

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

Table as at Saturday, October 15, 1955:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Northampton Town 15 11 0 4 28 19 1.47 22 
2 Southend United 15 10 1 4 34 21 1.62 21 
3 Leyton Orient 14 9 2 3 27 9 3.00 20 
4 Brighton and Hove Albion 15 8 4 3 30 14 2.14 20 
5 Ipswich Town 15 8 4 3 32 21 1.52 20 
6 Gillingham 15 8 3 4 24 18 1.33 19 
7 Torquay United 15 7 4 4 25 16 1.56 18 
8 Norwich City 15 7 4 4 23 23 1.00 18 
9 Shrewsbury Town 15 7 2 6 29 22 1.32 16 
10 Aldershot 15 6 4 5 29 26 1.12 16 
11 Brentford 15 6 4 5 21 22 0.95 16 
12 Coventry City 15 6 3 6 25 18 1.39 15 
13 Newport County 15 6 2 7 20 25 0.80 14 
14 Colchester United 15 5 4 6 15 29 0.52 14 
15 Crystal Palace 15 4 5 6 21 21 1.00 13 
16 Exeter City 15 4 5 6 17 19 0.89 13 
17 Southampton 15 5 3 7 27 32 0.84 13 
18 Reading 15 5 2 8 22 24 0.92 12 
19 Queens Park Rangers 15 3 6 6 19 24 0.79 12 
20 Watford 15 5 2 8 19 34 0.56 12 
21 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 15 5 1 9 17 25 0.68 11 
22 Millwall 14 4 2 8 26 27 0.96 10 
23 Walsall 15 3 3 9 22 37 0.59
24 Swindon Town 15 1 2 12 9 35 0.26

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