Football League Division Three
Saturday, January 28, 1961

Newport County Swindon Town
J.McSeveney (27'), K.McPherson (77')
HT: 1-0
Attendance:  3,350   Referee:  G.W. Pullin


1
WEARE
2
BIRD
3
SHERWOOD
4
BURTON
5
PEAKE
6
ROWLAND
7
DIXON
8
MCSEVENEY
9
MCPHERSON
10
MEYER
11
SMITH
1
BURTON
2
WOLLEN
3
TROLLOPE
4
MORGAN
5
OWEN
6
WOODRUFF
7
DARCY
8
HUNT
9
SUMMERBEE
10
JACKSON
11
JONES

Lineups
1
Len WEARE
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Johnny BIRD
                 
Terry WOLLEN
2
3
Alf SHERWOOD  
                 
John TROLLOPE
3
4
Ollie BURTON  
                 
Keith MORGAN
4
5
Dudley PEAKE
                 
Maurice OWEN
5
6
John ROWLAND
                 
Bobby WOODRUFF
6
7
Cecil DIXON
                 
Arnold DARCY
7

8
John MCSEVENEY
               
Ernie HUNT
8

9
Ken MCPHERSON view STFC profile
               
  Mike SUMMERBEE
9
10
Barrie MEYER
                 
Cliff JACKSON
10
11
Granville SMITH
                 
Fred JONES
11















Results on Saturday, January 28, 1961: League Table

 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 3 - 2 Southend United  
  Colchester United 2 - 4 Brentford  
  Grimsby Town 1 - 3 Watford  
  Hull City 4 - 2 Tranmere Rovers  
  Newport County 2 - 0 Swindon Town  
  Notts County 1 - 0 Chesterfield  
  Queens Park Rangers 3 - 1 Bury  
  Reading 1 - 1 Halifax Town  

Table as at Saturday, January 28, 1961:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Queens Park Rangers 29 16 8 5 63 37 1.70 40 
2 Bury 28 16 4 8 72 38 1.89 36 
3 Grimsby Town 28 15 6 7 56 43 1.30 36 
4 Notts County 28 14 7 7 58 51 1.14 35 
5 Torquay United 27 12 10 5 55 40 1.38 34 
6 Walsall 27 15 3 9 54 42 1.29 33 
7 Port Vale 27 12 8 7 65 46 1.41 32 
8 Watford 27 11 10 6 50 42 1.19 32 
9 Halifax Town 28 11 10 7 53 52 1.02 32 
10 Newport County 26 11 7 8 54 51 1.06 29 
11 Barnsley 26 13 3 10 50 49 1.02 29 
12 Hull City 28 11 5 12 47 44 1.07 27 
13 Brentford 29 10 7 12 41 50 0.82 27 
14 Shrewsbury Town 27 8 10 9 49 52 0.94 26 
15 Coventry City 26 9 7 10 46 48 0.96 25 
16 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 29 10 5 14 40 52 0.77 25 
17 Swindon Town 27 7 9 11 36 33 1.09 23 
18 Bristol City 27 9 5 13 41 44 0.93 23 
19 Southend United 29 8 7 14 42 54 0.78 23 
20 Reading 27 7 8 12 43 59 0.73 22 
21 Tranmere Rovers 29 7 6 16 53 86 0.62 20 
22 Bradford City 24 5 9 10 33 41 0.80 19 
23 Colchester United 28 6 7 15 39 57 0.68 19 
24 Chesterfield 29 3 7 19 33 62 0.53 13 

Key: Promotion Relegation