Football League Division Three (South)
Tuesday, December 27, 1949

Swindon Town Brighton and Hove Albion
J.Simner (??', ??'), T.Dawson (??'), H.Lunn (??')
 HT: 2-2 J.McNichol (??'), B.Reed (??')
Attendance:  18,872    


1
UPRICHARD
2
HUNT
3
YOUNG
4
PAINTER
5
HUDSON
6
KAYE
7
LUNN
8
DAWSON
9
SIMNER
10
PATERSON
11
WHEELER
1
BALDWIN
2
MORRAD
3
GUTTRIDGE
4
DANIELS
5
WHENT
6
BRENNAN
7
REED
8
MCNICHOL
9
MCCURLEY
10
KAVANAGH
11
DAVIES

Lineups
1
Norman UPRICHARD  
                 
Harry BALDWIN
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Frank MORRAD
2
3
Albert YOUNG
                 
Ron GUTTRIDGE
3
4
Edward PAINTER
                 
Harry DANIELS
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Jackie WHENT
5
6
Harry KAYE
                 
Paddy BRENNAN
6
7
Harry LUNN
             
  Billy REED
7

8
Tom DAWSON
             
Johnny MCNICHOL
8

9
Joe SIMNER
               
Kevin MCCURLEY
9
10
George PATERSON
                 
Micky KAVANAGH
10
11
Alf WHEELER
                 
Ken DAVIES
11













Results on Tuesday, December 27, 1949: League Table
 
  Aldershot 4 - 1 Newport County  
  Bristol Rovers 3 - 0 Leyton Orient  
  Ipswich Town 0 - 4 Notts County  
  Millwall 1 - 1 Walsall  
  Northampton Town 1 - 1 Port Vale  
  Nottingham Forest 0 - 1 Norwich City  
  Reading 2 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Southend United 1 - 0 Exeter City  
  Swindon Town 4 - 2 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Torquay United 3 - 3 Bristol City  
  Watford 0 - 0 Crystal Palace  

Table as at Tuesday, December 27, 1949:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Notts County 22 16 4 2 54 18 3.00 36 
2 Norwich City 23 13 4 6 44 28 1.57 30 
3 Northampton Town 23 12 5 6 43 31 1.39 29 
4 Torquay United 23 12 5 6 37 34 1.09 29 
5 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 24 11 6 7 36 32 1.13 28 
6 Southend United 20 10 6 4 31 18 1.72 26 
7 Nottingham Forest 23 11 4 8 34 20 1.70 26 
8 Reading 24 11 4 9 46 38 1.21 26 
9 Port Vale 22 9 7 6 26 16 1.63 25 
10 Watford 23 8 8 7 21 20 1.05 24 
11 Bristol City 23 8 5 10 33 37 0.89 21 
12 Walsall 22 7 6 9 35 27 1.30 20 
13 Crystal Palace 22 7 6 9 28 34 0.82 20 
14 Swindon Town 22 7 5 10 36 33 1.09 19 
15 Brighton and Hove Albion 23 7 5 11 32 46 0.70 19 
16 Millwall 23 8 2 13 32 37 0.86 18 
17 Newport County 22 7 4 11 40 56 0.71 18 
18 Bristol Rovers 22 8 2 12 21 31 0.68 18 
19 Leyton Orient 22 6 6 10 28 45 0.62 18 
20 Aldershot 22 7 3 12 22 35 0.63 17 
21 Exeter City 22 5 4 13 30 53 0.57 14 
22 Ipswich Town 22 3 7 12 28 48 0.58 13 

Key: Promotion Re-election