Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, April 7, 1956

Swindon Town Reading

HT: 0-0
Attendance:  7,397   Referee:  H.L. Broadhurst


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
FOX
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
GIBSON
8
AGAR
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
MICKLEWRIGHT
1
JONES
2
MCLAREN
3
REEVES
4
PENFORD
5
SPIERS
6
LEACH
7
WHEELER
8
GREEN
9
KIRKUP
10
DIXON
11
QUINLAN

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Dave JONES
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Eddie MCLAREN
2
3
Geoff FOX
                 
Ray REEVES
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Dennis PENFORD
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Dick SPIERS
5
6
Gordon WILLIAMS
                 
Brian LEACH
6
7
Dave GIBSON
                 
Jimmy WHEELER
7

8
Roy AGAR
                 
Roy GREEN
8

9
Maurice OWEN
                 
Brian KIRKUP
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
                 
Tommy DIXON
10
11
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
                 
Eddie QUINLAN
11















Results on Saturday, April 7, 1956: League Table
 
  Aldershot 1 - 3 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 2 - 0 Colchester United  
  Crystal Palace 2 - 0 Norwich City  
  Ipswich Town 3 - 0 Southend United  
  Newport County 0 - 1 Watford  
  Northampton Town 0 - 2 Gillingham  
  Queens Park Rangers 4 - 0 Millwall  
  Shrewsbury Town 2 - 0 Exeter City  
  Southampton 1 - 2 Leyton Orient  
  Swindon Town 0 - 0 Reading  
  Torquay United 3 - 1 Brentford  
  Walsall 2 - 0 Coventry City  

Table as at Saturday, April 7, 1956:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Leyton Orient 39 27 7 5 96 33 2.91 61 
2 Brighton and Hove Albion 41 27 5 9 100 41 2.44 59 
3 Ipswich Town 41 22 12 7 97 55 1.76 56 
4 Coventry City 42 20 7 15 69 53 1.30 47 
5 Southend United 39 19 9 11 79 65 1.22 47 
6 Torquay United 41 17 11 13 72 55 1.31 45 
7 Norwich City 39 17 11 11 73 69 1.06 45 
8 Brentford 41 16 12 13 62 63 0.98 44 
9 Northampton Town 40 18 7 15 56 59 0.95 43 
10 Colchester United 42 16 11 15 68 73 0.93 43 
11 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 40 16 10 14 54 42 1.29 42 
12 Southampton 42 17 8 17 82 69 1.19 42 
13 Shrewsbury Town 41 15 10 16 61 58 1.05 40 
14 Gillingham 41 15 10 16 59 66 0.89 40 
15 Aldershot 41 11 14 16 67 81 0.83 36 
16 Watford 42 12 11 19 48 78 0.62 35 
17 Reading 42 13 8 21 64 75 0.85 34 
18 Queens Park Rangers 42 11 11 20 56 79 0.71 33 
19 Exeter City 41 12 9 20 48 68 0.71 33 
20 Walsall 39 12 8 19 53 72 0.74 32 
21 Crystal Palace 41 11 10 20 52 73 0.71 32 
22 Newport County 40 12 8 20 50 70 0.71 32 
23 Swindon Town 41 8 13 20 32 72 0.44 29 
24 Millwall 40 11 6 23 66 95 0.69 28 

Key: Promotion Re-election