Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, October 12, 1957

Crystal Palace Swindon Town
J.Byrne (6'), G.Cooper (12', 25'), P.Berry (41')
HT: 4-0 A.Micklewright (75')
Attendance:  14,943   Referee:  A.E. Moore


1
ROUSE
2
EDWARDS
3
GREENWOOD
4
LONG
5
PROUDLER
6
TRUETT
7
BERRY
8
COOPER
9
BYRNE
10
PIERCE
11
HARRISON
1
BURTON
2
NEAL
3
LEE
4
CLAYTON
5
HUDSON
6
MCDONALD
7
SKULL
8
OWEN
9
MICKLEWRIGHT
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Vic ROUSE  
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Jack EDWARDS
                 
John NEAL
2
3
Roy GREENWOOD
                 
Jimmy LEE
3
4
Terry LONG
                 
Lewis CLAYTON
4
5
Arthur PROUDLER
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Geoff TRUETT
                 
Gordon MCDONALD
6
7
Peter BERRY
               
John SKULL
7

8
George COOPER
               
Maurice OWEN
8

9
Johnny BYRNE  
             
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
9
10
Barry PIERCE
                 
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Bernie HARRISON
                 
Arnold DARCY
11















Results on Saturday, October 12, 1957: League Table

 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 - 1 Southend United  
  Brentford 1 - 0 Gillingham  
  Colchester United 3 - 0 Exeter City  
  Coventry City 0 - 0 Southampton  
  Crystal Palace 4 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Northampton Town 5 - 0 Plymouth Argyle  
  Norwich City 2 - 0 Queens Park Rangers  
  Reading 3 - 0 Port Vale  
  Shrewsbury Town 1 - 1 Newport County  
  Torquay United 2 - 3 Millwall  
  Walsall 2 - 3 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Watford 1 - 3 Aldershot  

Table as at Saturday, October 12, 1957:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Brighton and Hove Albion 14 9 1 4 27 23 1.17 19 
2 Norwich City 14 7 4 3 23 20 1.15 18 
3 Swindon Town 15 7 3 5 27 19 1.42 17 
4 Plymouth Argyle 15 8 1 6 20 18 1.11 17 
5 Brentford 14 7 2 5 30 23 1.30 16 
6 Reading 13 6 3 4 26 14 1.86 15 
7 Port Vale 13 6 3 4 19 12 1.58 15 
8 Southampton 15 6 3 6 34 24 1.42 15 
9 Millwall 14 7 1 6 25 21 1.19 15 
10 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 14 6 3 5 23 25 0.92 15 
11 Crystal Palace 14 5 4 5 21 18 1.17 14 
12 Watford 14 4 6 4 17 15 1.13 14 
13 Colchester United 15 5 4 6 21 27 0.78 14 
14 Southend United 14 6 1 7 32 21 1.52 13 
15 Northampton Town 15 5 3 7 26 26 1.00 13 
16 Aldershot 14 5 3 6 17 22 0.77 13 
17 Newport County 13 4 5 4 16 21 0.76 13 
18 Shrewsbury Town 14 4 5 5 12 18 0.67 13 
19 Coventry City 12 4 4 4 12 17 0.71 12 
20 Queens Park Rangers 14 5 2 7 12 26 0.46 12 
21 Walsall 12 4 3 5 16 19 0.84 11 
22 Gillingham 14 5 1 8 14 21 0.67 11 
23 Exeter City 14 3 4 7 15 26 0.58 10 
24 Torquay United 14 3 3 8 12 21 0.57

Key: Promotion Relegation