Football League Division Three
Tuesday, August 29, 1961

Swindon Town Coventry City
M.Summerbee (46'), D.Corbett (52'), R.Hunt (54')
HT: 0-1 B.Myerscough (22'), M.Grice (58'), M.Dixon (68')
Attendance:  10,563   Referee:  K.G. Aston


1
BURTON
2
JONES
3
TROLLOPE
4
MORGAN
5
OWEN
6
BELL
7
SUMMERBEE
8
WOODRUFF
9
SMITH
10
HUNT
11
CORBETT
1
LIGHTENING
2
KLETZENBAUER
3
AUSTIN
4
NICHOLAS
5
CURTIS
6
FARMER
7
GRICE
8
MYERSCOUGH
9
DIXON
10
HILL
11
IMLACH

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Arthur LIGHTENING
1
2
Ken JONES
                 
Frank KLETZENBAUER
2
3
John TROLLOPE
                 
Frank AUSTIN
3
4
Keith MORGAN
                 
Brian NICHOLAS
4
5
Maurice OWEN
                 
George CURTIS
5
6
John BELL
                 
Ron FARMER
6
7
Mike SUMMERBEE  
             
Mike GRICE
7

8
Bobby WOODRUFF
               
Billy MYERSCOUGH
8

9
Jack SMITH
               
Mike DIXON
9
10
Ralph HUNT
               
Brian HILL
10
11
David CORBETT
               
  Stewart IMLACH
11













Results on Tuesday, August 29, 1961: League Table

 
  Northampton Town 0 - 1 Bristol City  
  Swindon Town 3 - 3 Coventry City  

Table as at Tuesday, August 29, 1961:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Peterborough United 4 4 0 0 11 7 1.57
2 Halifax Town 4 3 1 0 7 2 3.50
3 Reading 3 3 0 0 12 4 3.00
4 Crystal Palace 3 3 0 0 9 3 3.00
5 Portsmouth 4 2 2 0 7 4 1.75
6 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 3 2 1 0 5 1 5.00
7 Shrewsbury Town 3 2 1 0 5 2 2.50
8 Coventry City 4 2 1 1 8 8 1.00
9 Grimsby Town 3 2 0 1 7 4 1.75
10 Bradford Park Avenue 3 2 0 1 6 4 1.50
11 Queens Park Rangers 3 2 0 1 10 8 1.25
12 Bristol City 4 2 0 2 2 2 1.00
13 Southend United 4 1 1 2 5 7 0.71
14 Port Vale 3 1 0 2 6 5 1.20
15 Watford 4 0 2 2 8 10 0.80
16 Barnsley 3 1 0 2 5 7 0.71
17 Torquay United 3 1 0 2 5 7 0.71
18 Notts County 3 1 0 2 4 7 0.57
19 Hull City 3 1 0 2 3 7 0.43
20 Swindon Town 4 0 1 3 6 11 0.55
21 Lincoln City 3 0 1 2 3 7 0.43
22 Northampton Town 4 0 1 3 0 3 0.00
23 Brentford 4 0 0 4 1 8 0.13
24 Newport County 3 0 0 3 0 7 0.00

Key: Promotion Relegation