Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, April 30, 1949

Reading Swindon Town

HT: 0-0
Attendance:  18,936   Referee:  B.M. Griffiths


1
MARKS
2
CLOVER
3
MOYSE
4
HENLEY
5
BRICE
6
GREEN
7
FISHER
8
EDELSTON
9
BLACKMAN
10
GLIDDEN
11
ALLISON
1
BOULTON
2
COWIE
3
YOUNG
4
KAYE
5
HUDSON
6
FOXTON
7
LUNN
8
DAWSON
9
OWEN
10
JONES
11
BAIN

Lineups
1
George MARKS
                 
Frank BOULTON
1
2
Bill CLOVER
                 
Andy COWIE
2
3
Ron MOYSE
                 
Albert YOUNG
3
4
Les HENLEY
                 
Harry KAYE
4
5
Gordon BRICE
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
George GREEN
                 
Jack FOXTON
6
7
Freddie FISHER
                 
Harry LUNN
7

8
Maurice EDELSTON
                 
Tom DAWSON
8

9
Ronnie BLACKMAN
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Gilbert GLIDDEN
                 
Morris JONES
10
11
Jack ALLISON
                 
Jimmy BAIN
11















Results on Saturday, April 30, 1949: League Table

 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 - 0 Millwall  
  Bristol Rovers 2 - 2 Norwich City  
  Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Leyton Orient  
  Ipswich Town 4 - 1 Aldershot  
  Newport County 0 - 2 Exeter City  
  Notts County 1 - 1 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Reading 0 - 0 Swindon Town  
  Swansea Town 2 - 0 Bristol City  
  Torquay United 3 - 0 Northampton Town  
  Walsall 0 - 3 Southend United  
  Watford 2 - 1 Port Vale  

Table as at Saturday, April 30, 1949:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Swansea Town 41 27 8 6 87 33 2.64 62 
2 Reading 41 24 5 12 76 50 1.52 53 
3 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 41 22 7 12 69 48 1.44 51 
4 Swindon Town 41 17 15 9 63 56 1.13 49 
5 Bristol Rovers 41 19 10 12 60 49 1.22 48 
6 Brighton and Hove Albion 41 14 18 9 49 54 0.91 46 
7 Ipswich Town 41 18 9 14 77 71 1.08 45 
8 Millwall 41 17 10 14 61 62 0.98 44 
9 Torquay United 41 17 10 14 65 70 0.93 44 
10 Notts County 41 19 5 17 100 65 1.54 43 
11 Norwich City 41 16 11 14 67 49 1.37 43 
12 Port Vale 41 14 10 17 51 54 0.94 38 
13 Exeter City 40 14 10 16 60 73 0.82 38 
14 Walsall 41 14 8 19 54 64 0.84 36 
15 Bristol City 41 11 13 17 43 61 0.70 35 
16 Watford 41 10 14 17 39 52 0.75 34 
17 Leyton Orient 41 11 12 18 58 79 0.73 34 
18 Newport County 40 13 8 19 65 90 0.72 34 
19 Northampton Town 41 12 9 20 51 60 0.85 33 
20 Southend United 41 8 16 17 38 44 0.86 32 
21 Aldershot 41 11 10 20 48 59 0.81 32 
22 Crystal Palace 41 8 10 23 38 76 0.50 26 

Key: Promotion Re-election