Football League Division Three (South)
Monday, April 19, 1954

Reading Swindon Town
S.Chung (??', ??'), R.Blackman (??')
HT: 1-1 A.Beards (??')
Attendance:  12,011    


1
JONES
2
PENFORD
3
MANSELL
4
DAVIS
5
REEVES
6
LEACH
7
SIMPSON
8
CHUNG
9
BLACKMAN
10
DOCHERTY
11
HINSHELWOOD
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
PAGE
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
JOHNSTON
7
BULL
8
ONSLOW
9
JOHNSON
10
SAMPSON
11
BEARDS

Lineups
1
Dave JONES
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Dennis PENFORD
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Barry MANSELL
                 
Mick PAGE
3
4
Fred DAVIS
                 
Jim CROSS
4
5
Ray REEVES
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Brian LEACH
                 
Jimmy JOHNSTON
6
7
Dennis SIMPSON
                 
Mike BULL
7

8
Sammy CHUNG
               
Roy ONSLOW
8

9
Ronnie BLACKMAN
               
Roy JOHNSON
9
10
Tom DOCHERTY
                 
Ray SAMPSON
10
11
Wally HINSHELWOOD
               
Alan BEARDS
11













Results on Monday, April 19, 1954: League Table

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

Table as at Monday, April 19, 1954:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Ipswich Town 43 24 10 9 76 49 1.55 58 
2 Brighton and Hove Albion 43 25 7 11 82 59 1.39 57 
3 Bristol City 43 23 6 14 83 61 1.36 52 
4 Watford 42 20 9 13 80 63 1.27 49 
5 Southampton 42 22 5 15 73 58 1.26 49 
6 Northampton Town 42 18 10 14 76 53 1.43 46 
7 Exeter City 44 19 8 17 66 54 1.22 46 
8 Reading 44 19 8 17 81 71 1.14 46 
9 Norwich City 41 18 10 13 68 60 1.13 46 
10 Torquay United 44 17 11 16 79 83 0.95 45 
11 Gillingham 44 18 9 17 57 63 0.90 45 
12 Leyton Orient 42 17 10 15 74 67 1.10 44 
13 Millwall 42 18 8 16 67 70 0.96 44 
14 Southend United 44 17 7 20 68 70 0.97 41 
15 Newport County 43 18 5 20 58 78 0.74 41 
16 Aldershot 44 16 8 20 69 84 0.82 40 
17 Coventry City 43 15 9 19 55 55 1.00 39 
18 Swindon Town 44 15 9 20 67 68 0.99 39 
19 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 44 16 7 21 66 68 0.97 39 
20 Crystal Palace 44 14 11 19 57 82 0.70 39 
21 Shrewsbury Town 43 13 12 18 61 70 0.87 38 
22 Queens Park Rangers 43 14 10 19 55 64 0.86 38 
23 Colchester United 42 10 8 24 49 73 0.67 28 
24 Walsall 44 9 7 28 39 83 0.47 25 

Key: Promotion Re-election