Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, February 27, 1954

Leyton Orient Swindon Town
P.White (40')
 HT: 1-1 K.Lambert (11')
Attendance:  12,466   Referee:  W. Wood


1
GROOMBRIDGE
2
EVANS
3
EARL
4
MALLETT
5
BISHOP
6
BURGESS
7
WHITE
8
MORGAN
9
PACEY
10
LUSTED
11
POULTON
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
ELWELL
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
JOHNSTON
7
LAMBERT
8
SAMPSON
9
OWEN
10
ONSLOW
11
BULL

Lineups
1
Dave GROOMBRIDGE
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
John EVANS
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Stan EARL view STFC profile
                 
Terry ELWELL
3
4
Joe MALLETT
                 
Jim CROSS
4
5
Sid BISHOP
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Mike BURGESS
                 
Jimmy JOHNSTON
6
7
Phil WHITE
             
Ken LAMBERT
7

8
Stan MORGAN view STFC profile
                 
Ray SAMPSON
8

9
Denis PACEY
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Les LUSTED
                 
Roy ONSLOW
10
11
George POULTON
                 
Mike BULL
11















Results on Saturday, February 27, 1954: League Table
 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 - 0 Crystal Palace  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 2 - 1 Exeter City  
  Coventry City 2 - 1 Colchester United  
  Gillingham 2 - 0 Southampton  
  Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Bristol City  
  Leyton Orient 1 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Millwall 2 - 0 Aldershot  
  Northampton Town 2 - 1 Queens Park Rangers  
  Reading 0 - 2 Walsall  
  Southend United 3 - 0 Shrewsbury Town  
  Torquay United 2 - 4 Norwich City  
  Watford 1 - 0 Newport County  

Table as at Saturday, February 27, 1954:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Brighton and Hove Albion 32 21 4 7 66 44 1.50 46 
2 Ipswich Town 31 19 7 5 63 36 1.75 45 
3 Southampton 31 19 2 10 58 40 1.45 40 
4 Bristol City 33 18 4 11 70 51 1.37 40 
5 Watford 32 16 7 9 68 50 1.36 39 
6 Gillingham 35 15 8 12 49 53 0.92 38 
7 Torquay United 35 13 11 11 66 62 1.06 37 
8 Northampton Town 32 13 9 10 64 42 1.52 35 
9 Leyton Orient 32 14 7 11 56 48 1.17 35 
10 Millwall 32 14 7 11 55 52 1.06 35 
11 Exeter City 34 14 6 14 50 42 1.19 34 
12 Coventry City 34 13 8 13 46 39 1.18 34 
13 Norwich City 32 13 8 11 47 47 1.00 34 
14 Reading 32 13 7 12 54 49 1.10 33 
15 Crystal Palace 34 12 8 14 45 63 0.71 32 
16 Southend United 34 12 6 16 48 52 0.92 30 
17 Swindon Town 34 11 7 16 53 56 0.95 29 
18 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 34 13 3 18 51 54 0.94 29 
19 Shrewsbury Town 34 10 9 15 51 59 0.86 29 
20 Newport County 34 12 4 18 44 70 0.63 28 
21 Queens Park Rangers 32 8 9 15 33 49 0.67 25 
22 Aldershot 33 9 7 17 44 70 0.63 25 
23 Colchester United 33 9 6 18 39 53 0.74 24 
24 Walsall 33 6 4 23 28 67 0.42 16 

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