Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, December 5, 1953

Swindon Town Watford
M.Owen (6'), R.Sampson (10')
HT: 2-1 J.Paton (8'), J.Bowie (51' pen)
Attendance:  8,769   Referee:  F.C. Williams


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
CROSS
5
BATCHELOR
6
JOHNSTON
7
BULL
8
BETTERIDGE
9
OWEN
10
LAMBERT
11
SAMPSON
1
UNDERWOOD
2
BEWLEY
3
JONES
4
KELLY
5
OELOFSE
6
MITCHELL
7
COOK
8
SMITH
9
BROWN
10
BOWIE
11
PATON

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Dave UNDERWOOD
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Dave BEWLEY
2
3
Terry ELWELL
                 
Jimmy JONES
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Jimmy KELLY
4
5
Ted BATCHELOR
                 
Ralph OELOFSE
5
6
Jimmy JOHNSTON
                 
Frank MITCHELL
6
7
Mike BULL
                 
Maurice COOK
7

8
Mick BETTERIDGE
                 
Eddie SMITH
8

9
Maurice OWEN
               
Roy BROWN
9
10
Ken LAMBERT
               
Jimmy BOWIE
10
11
Ray SAMPSON
             
Johnny PATON
11















Results on Saturday, December 5, 1953: League Table

 
  Aldershot 2 - 3 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Bristol City 4 - 1 Southend United  
  Colchester United 1 - 0 Leyton Orient  
  Crystal Palace 1 - 0 Reading  
  Exeter City 1 - 2 Gillingham  
  Newport County 2 - 1 Coventry City  
  Norwich City 1 - 3 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Queens Park Rangers 3 - 1 Ipswich Town  
  Shrewsbury Town 2 - 4 Northampton Town  
  Southampton 4 - 2 Millwall  
  Swindon Town 2 - 2 Watford  
  Walsall 1 - 3 Torquay United  

Table as at Saturday, December 5, 1953:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Ipswich Town 22 14 6 2 46 23 2.00 34 
2 Southampton 22 14 2 6 45 29 1.55 30 
3 Brighton and Hove Albion 21 13 4 4 37 25 1.48 30 
4 Reading 22 12 4 6 43 31 1.39 28 
5 Northampton Town 22 9 7 6 46 28 1.64 25 
6 Norwich City 22 10 5 7 33 30 1.10 25 
7 Crystal Palace 22 10 5 7 38 40 0.95 25 
8 Watford 22 10 4 8 49 37 1.32 24 
9 Bristol City 22 10 4 8 42 39 1.08 24 
10 Gillingham 22 9 6 7 30 34 0.88 24 
11 Coventry City 22 9 5 8 29 23 1.26 23 
12 Leyton Orient 22 9 5 8 41 38 1.08 23 
13 Millwall 21 9 4 8 38 33 1.15 22 
14 Torquay United 22 8 6 8 40 36 1.11 22 
15 Exeter City 22 9 3 10 32 29 1.10 21 
16 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 22 9 3 10 37 36 1.03 21 
17 Swindon Town 22 8 3 11 40 39 1.03 19 
18 Shrewsbury Town 21 6 6 9 33 37 0.89 18 
19 Queens Park Rangers 21 6 6 9 23 32 0.72 18 
20 Southend United 22 6 4 12 27 32 0.84 16 
21 Aldershot 22 6 4 12 27 49 0.55 16 
22 Colchester United 22 5 3 14 21 37 0.57 13 
23 Newport County 22 5 3 14 26 54 0.48 13 
24 Walsall 22 3 4 15 14 46 0.30 10 

Key: Promotion Re-election