Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, September 16, 1953

Swindon Town Walsall
H.Lunn (??'), M.Betteridge (??'), J.Bain (??')
HT: 1-0
Attendance:  8,832    


1
CHURCHILL
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
CROSS
5
BATCHELOR
6
JOHNSTON
7
LUNN
8
BETTERIDGE
9
OWEN
10
LAMBERT
11
BAIN
1
PIDCOCK
2
HORNE
3
FLAVELL
4
HOLDING
5
BRIDGETT
6
GREEN
7
GRUBB
8
DEAN
9
FINLAY
10
NICHOLLS
11
MORRIS

Lineups
1
Trevor CHURCHILL
                 
Fred PIDCOCK
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Les HORNE
2
3
Terry ELWELL
                 
Jack FLAVELL
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Eddie HOLDING
4
5
Ted BATCHELOR
                 
Jack BRIDGETT
5
6
Jimmy JOHNSTON
                 
Billy GREEN
6
7
Harry LUNN
               
Alan GRUBB
7

8
Mick BETTERIDGE
               
George DEAN
8

9
Maurice OWEN
                 
Jock FINLAY
9
10
Ken LAMBERT
                 
Ron NICHOLLS
10
11
Jimmy BAIN
               
Fred MORRIS
11













Results on Wednesday, September 16, 1953: League Table

 
  Aldershot 1 - 0 Shrewsbury Town  
  Crystal Palace 3 - 0 Newport County  
  Gillingham 1 - 1 Ipswich Town  
  Southampton 3 - 1 Queens Park Rangers  
  Swindon Town 3 - 0 Walsall  
  Torquay United 2 - 3 Leyton Orient  

Table as at Wednesday, September 16, 1953:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Southampton 9 7 1 1 25 9 2.78 15 
2 Brighton and Hove Albion 9 7 1 1 18 11 1.64 15 
3 Ipswich Town 9 6 2 1 21 9 2.33 14 
4 Norwich City 8 5 3 0 14 6 2.33 13 
5 Bristol City 9 5 2 2 19 10 1.90 12 
6 Aldershot 9 5 2 2 12 9 1.33 12 
7 Swindon Town 9 5 1 3 19 10 1.90 11 
8 Crystal Palace 9 4 3 2 20 17 1.18 11 
9 Reading 9 5 1 3 17 17 1.00 11 
10 Colchester United 8 4 0 4 13 12 1.08
11 Watford 9 4 0 5 20 20 1.00
12 Coventry City 9 4 0 5 15 15 1.00
13 Gillingham 9 2 4 3 11 17 0.65
14 Shrewsbury Town 8 3 1 4 12 13 0.92
15 Southend United 9 3 1 5 10 11 0.91
16 Leyton Orient 9 3 1 5 16 19 0.84
17 Exeter City 9 3 1 5 11 14 0.79
18 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 9 3 1 5 11 16 0.69
19 Queens Park Rangers 9 3 1 5 9 13 0.69
20 Northampton Town 8 2 2 4 12 13 0.92
21 Millwall 7 2 2 3 9 12 0.75
22 Torquay United 9 1 2 6 14 21 0.67
23 Newport County 9 2 0 7 11 29 0.38
24 Walsall 9 0 2 7 5 21 0.24

Key: Promotion Re-election