Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, September 30, 1953

Swindon Town Exeter City
M.Betteridge (??', ??')
 HT: 0-2 A.Mackay (??', ??'), C.McClelland (??', ??')
Attendance:  7,727    


1
CHURCHILL
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
CROSS
5
BATCHELOR
6
JOHNSTON
7
LUNN
8
BETTERIDGE
9
OWEN
10
LAMBERT
11
BULL
1
SINGLETON
2
WALTON
3
DOYLE
4
BOOTH
5
DAVEY
6
DODGIN
7
PRIESTLEY
8
DAILEY
9
DONALDSON
10
MACKAY
11
MCCLELLAND

Lineups
1
Trevor CHURCHILL
                 
Barney SINGLETON
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Dick WALTON
2
3
Terry ELWELL
                 
Les DOYLE
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Sam BOOTH
4
5
Ted BATCHELOR
                 
Fred DAVEY
5
6
Jimmy JOHNSTON
                 
Norman DODGIN
6
7
Harry LUNN
                 
Gerry PRIESTLEY
7

8
Mick BETTERIDGE
               
Jimmy DAILEY
8

9
Maurice OWEN
                 
Andy DONALDSON
9
10
Ken LAMBERT
               
Angus MACKAY
10
11
Mike BULL
               
Charlie MCCLELLAND
11













Results on Wednesday, September 30, 1953: League Table
 
  Aldershot 2 - 0 Newport County  
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 - 3 Ipswich Town  
  Bristol City 3 - 1 Norwich City  
  Crystal Palace 0 - 3 Queens Park Rangers  
  Gillingham 1 - 2 Leyton Orient  
  Reading 2 - 0 Northampton Town  
  Southend United 1 - 0 Torquay United  
  Swindon Town 2 - 4 Exeter City  

Table as at Wednesday, September 30, 1953:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Ipswich Town 13 9 3 1 29 14 2.07 21 
2 Norwich City 13 8 4 1 21 10 2.10 20 
3 Southampton 12 9 1 2 31 13 2.38 19 
4 Brighton and Hove Albion 13 7 4 2 24 18 1.33 18 
5 Bristol City 13 7 3 3 28 16 1.75 17 
6 Crystal Palace 13 6 4 3 26 24 1.08 16 
7 Reading 13 6 3 4 21 21 1.00 15 
8 Aldershot 13 6 3 4 17 17 1.00 15 
9 Leyton Orient 13 6 2 5 26 23 1.13 14 
10 Swindon Town 13 6 1 6 27 20 1.35 13 
11 Watford 13 5 2 6 27 27 1.00 12 
12 Northampton Town 13 4 4 5 19 19 1.00 12 
13 Coventry City 13 5 2 6 18 18 1.00 12 
14 Exeter City 13 5 2 6 18 19 0.95 12 
15 Queens Park Rangers 13 4 4 5 14 15 0.93 12 
16 Southend United 13 4 3 6 14 15 0.93 11 
17 Millwall 12 4 3 5 16 19 0.84 11 
18 Shrewsbury Town 11 4 2 5 19 19 1.00 10 
19 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 13 4 2 7 18 24 0.75 10 
20 Colchester United 12 4 1 7 15 19 0.79 9 
21 Gillingham 13 2 5 6 14 27 0.52 9 
22 Torquay United 13 2 4 7 20 24 0.83 8 
23 Newport County 13 2 1 10 13 36 0.36 5 
24 Walsall 12 1 3 8 8 26 0.31 5 

Key: Promotion Re-election