Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, September 14, 1955

Brighton and Hove Albion Swindon Town
G.Hudson (??' o.g.), A.Mundy (??')
HT: 1-0
Attendance:  10,694    


1
GILL
2
BISSET
3
LANGLEY
4
TENNANT
5
WHITFIELD
6
WILSON
7
GORDON
8
MUNDY
9
HARBURN
10
FOREMAN
11
HOWARD
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
MCSHANE
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
GIBSON
8
JOHNSON
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
SAMPSON

Lineups
1
Eric GILL
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Tommy BISSET
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Jimmy LANGLEY  
                 
Peter HILTON
3
4
Des TENNANT
                 
Anthony MCSHANE
4
5
Ken WHITFIELD
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Glen WILSON
                 
Gordon WILLIAMS
6
7
Denis GORDON
                 
Dave GIBSON
7

8
Albert MUNDY
               
Roy JOHNSON
8

9
Peter HARBURN
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Denis FOREMAN
                 
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Frankie HOWARD
                 
Ray SAMPSON
11













Results on Wednesday, September 14, 1955: League Table

 
  Aldershot 2 - 0 Northampton Town  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 2 - 0 Swindon Town  
  Crystal Palace 1 - 1 Queens Park Rangers  
  Exeter City 1 - 1 Norwich City  
  Reading 6 - 1 Watford  
  Southampton 3 - 3 Newport County  
  Southend United 4 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  

Table as at Wednesday, September 14, 1955:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Northampton Town 8 7 0 1 16 9 1.78 14 
2 Leyton Orient 7 5 2 0 15 2 7.50 12 
3 Brighton and Hove Albion 8 4 3 1 15 9 1.67 11 
4 Aldershot 8 5 1 2 17 11 1.55 11 
5 Southend United 8 5 1 2 17 13 1.31 11 
6 Norwich City 8 5 1 2 14 14 1.00 11 
7 Torquay United 8 4 2 2 14 9 1.56 10 
8 Coventry City 8 4 1 3 13 8 1.63
9 Gillingham 8 4 1 3 14 11 1.27
10 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 8 4 1 3 13 11 1.18
11 Ipswich Town 7 3 2 2 19 13 1.46
12 Crystal Palace 8 2 4 2 13 9 1.44
13 Millwall 8 3 2 3 19 14 1.36
14 Newport County 8 3 2 3 11 15 0.73
15 Queens Park Rangers 8 1 5 2 9 10 0.90
16 Brentford 8 2 3 3 10 13 0.77
17 Exeter City 8 1 4 3 6 8 0.75
18 Watford 8 3 0 5 9 21 0.43
19 Shrewsbury Town 8 2 1 5 15 14 1.07
20 Reading 8 2 0 6 12 17 0.71
21 Southampton 8 1 2 5 13 21 0.62
22 Walsall 7 1 2 4 11 19 0.58
23 Swindon Town 8 1 1 6 7 16 0.44
24 Colchester United 7 1 1 5 5 20 0.25

Key: Promotion Re-election