Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, August 26, 1953

Swindon Town Aldershot
M.Betteridge (??'), M.Owen (??', ??')
HT: 0-0 K.Flint (??')
Attendance:  14,964    


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
CROSS
5
BATCHELOR
6
JOHNSTON
7
LUNN
8
LAMBERT
9
OWEN
10
BETTERIDGE
11
BULL
1
BROWN
2
ROGERS
3
JEFFERSON
4
LAIRD
5
BILLINGTON
6
CROPLEY
7
HOBBS
8
MENZIES
9
LACEY
10
MCCULLOCH
11
FLINT

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Fred BROWN
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Alf ROGERS
2
3
Terry ELWELL
                 
Arthur JEFFERSON
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Davie LAIRD
4
5
Ted BATCHELOR
                 
Charlie BILLINGTON
5
6
Jimmy JOHNSTON
                 
Jack CROPLEY
6
7
Harry LUNN
                 
Ronnie HOBBS
7

8
Ken LAMBERT
                 
Norman MENZIES
8

9
Maurice OWEN
               
Bill LACEY
9
10
Mick BETTERIDGE
               
Adam MCCULLOCH
10
11
Mike BULL
               
Ken FLINT
11













Results on Wednesday, August 26, 1953: League Table

 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 - 1 Northampton Town  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 2 - 1 Leyton Orient  
  Exeter City 1 - 2 Colchester United  
  Gillingham 2 - 0 Coventry City  
  Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Torquay United  
  Norwich City 2 - 2 Queens Park Rangers  
  Reading 2 - 0 Southend United  
  Swindon Town 3 - 1 Aldershot  

Table as at Wednesday, August 26, 1953:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Ipswich Town 3 3 0 0 7 1 7.00
2 Swindon Town 3 3 0 0 12 3 4.00
3 Brighton and Hove Albion 3 3 0 0 7 4 1.75
4 Gillingham 3 2 1 0 6 1 6.00
5 Southampton 3 2 0 1 9 4 2.25
6 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 3 2 0 1 7 4 1.75
7 Norwich City 3 1 2 0 3 2 1.50
8 Crystal Palace 3 1 2 0 7 6 1.17
9 Colchester United 3 2 0 1 5 5 1.00
10 Shrewsbury Town 2 1 1 0 7 5 1.40
11 Aldershot 3 1 1 1 5 5 1.00
12 Queens Park Rangers 3 1 1 1 5 5 1.00
13 Exeter City 3 1 1 1 4 4 1.00
14 Coventry City 3 1 0 2 6 6 1.00
15 Southend United 3 1 0 2 2 3 0.67
16 Millwall 2 1 0 1 2 4 0.50
17 Reading 3 1 0 2 3 7 0.43
18 Newport County 3 1 0 2 5 12 0.42
19 Bristol City 2 0 1 1 2 3 0.67
20 Northampton Town 3 0 1 2 3 6 0.50
21 Walsall 2 0 1 1 1 3 0.33
22 Torquay United 3 0 0 3 4 8 0.50
23 Watford 3 0 0 3 4 9 0.44
24 Leyton Orient 3 0 0 3 2 8 0.25

Key: Promotion Re-election