Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, August 19, 1953

Swindon Town Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic
H.Lunn (48', ??')
 HT: 0-1 J.Cross (40')
Attendance:  14,751    


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
CROSS
5
BATCHELOR
6
JOHNSTON
7
LUNN
8
LAMBERT
9
OWEN
10
BETTERIDGE
11
BULL
1
GODWIN
2
CUNNINGHAM
3
DRUMMOND
4
WOODWARD
5
HUGHES
6
NEAVE
7
WAUGH
8
BUCHANAN
9
CROSS
10
CHENEY
11
HARRISON

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
  Tommy GODWIN
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Laurie CUNNINGHAM
2
3
Terry ELWELL
                 
Ian DRUMMOND
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Dai WOODWARD
4
5
Ted BATCHELOR
                 
Harry HUGHES
5
6
Jimmy JOHNSTON
                 
Gordon NEAVE
6
7
Harry LUNN
               
Billy WAUGH
7

8
Ken LAMBERT
                 
Cameron BUCHANAN
8

9
Maurice OWEN
               
Jack CROSS
9
10
Mick BETTERIDGE
                 
Denis CHENEY
10
11
Mike BULL
                 
Peter HARRISON
11













Results on Wednesday, August 19, 1953: League Table
 
  Aldershot 4 - 2 Coventry City  
  Bristol City 1 - 1 Gillingham  
  Exeter City 2 - 1 Leyton Orient  
  Norwich City 1 - 0 Southend United  
  Queens Park Rangers 1 - 2 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Southampton 2 - 0 Watford  
  Swindon Town 2 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Walsall 0 - 2 Ipswich Town  

Table as at Wednesday, August 19, 1953:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Ipswich Town 1 1 0 0 2 0 ∞ 2 
2 Southampton 1 1 0 0 2 0 ∞ 2 
3 Norwich City 1 1 0 0 1 0 ∞ 2 
4 Aldershot 1 1 0 0 4 2 2.00 2 
5 Brighton and Hove Albion 1 1 0 0 2 1 2.00 2 
6 Exeter City 1 1 0 0 2 1 2.00 2 
7 Swindon Town 1 1 0 0 2 1 2.00 2 
8 Bristol City 1 0 1 0 1 1 1.00 1 
9 Gillingham 1 0 1 0 1 1 1.00 1 
10 Coventry City 1 0 0 1 2 4 0.50 0 
11 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 1 0 0 1 1 2 0.50 0 
12 Leyton Orient 1 0 0 1 1 2 0.50 0 
13 Queens Park Rangers 1 0 0 1 1 2 0.50 0 
14 Southend United 1 0 0 1 0 1 0.00 0 
15 Walsall 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.00 0 
16 Watford 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.00 0 

Key: Promotion Re-election