Football League Division Three (South)
Friday, April 8, 1955

Newport County Swindon Town
G.Hudson (34' o.g.), T.Johnston (??' pen)
HT: 1-1 R.Sampson (30', 66')
Attendance:  8,595   Referee:  W. Clements


1
POPE
2
LEVER
3
HAYWARD
4
LUCAS
5
WILCOX
6
THOMAS
7
SHERGOLD
8
HOLLYMAN
9
JOHNSTON
10
GRAHAM
11
HARRIS
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
GIBSON
8
ONSLOW
9
OWEN
10
SAMPSON
11
BULL

Lineups
1
Terry POPE
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Arthur LEVER  
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Dougie HAYWARD
                 
Peter HILTON
3
4
Billy LUCAS view STFC profile 
                 
Jim CROSS
4
5
Ray WILCOX
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
George THOMAS
                 
Gordon WILLIAMS
6
7
Billy SHERGOLD
                 
Dave GIBSON
7

8
Ken HOLLYMAN
                 
Roy ONSLOW
8

9
Tommy JOHNSTON
               
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Les GRAHAM
               
Ray SAMPSON
10
11
Harry HARRIS
                 
Mike BULL
11













Results on Friday, April 8, 1955: League Table

 
  Aldershot 4 - 2 Exeter City  
  Brentford 2 - 0 Leyton Orient  
  Colchester United 2 - 0 Southend United  
  Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Queens Park Rangers  
  Gillingham 1 - 1 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Millwall 3 - 1 Coventry City  
  Newport County 2 - 2 Swindon Town  
  Watford 2 - 1 Southampton  

Table as at Friday, April 8, 1955:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Bristol City 39 26 7 6 88 42 2.10 59 
2 Leyton Orient 38 23 8 7 78 34 2.29 54 
3 Southampton 39 22 8 9 64 41 1.56 52 
4 Millwall 39 18 10 11 63 53 1.19 46 
5 Gillingham 38 17 11 10 65 57 1.14 45 
6 Watford 38 16 11 11 59 50 1.18 43 
7 Norwich City 37 16 7 14 51 45 1.13 39 
8 Queens Park Rangers 38 14 11 13 60 57 1.05 39 
9 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 37 12 14 11 53 49 1.08 38 
10 Torquay United 38 14 10 14 67 69 0.97 38 
11 Brighton and Hove Albion 37 15 7 15 62 55 1.13 37 
12 Coventry City 36 14 9 13 51 46 1.11 37 
13 Northampton Town 38 15 6 17 57 75 0.76 36 
14 Brentford 37 11 12 14 66 70 0.94 34 
15 Aldershot 38 12 10 16 56 60 0.93 34 
16 Reading 37 11 11 15 55 60 0.92 33 
17 Southend United 36 11 10 15 61 65 0.94 32 
18 Crystal Palace 38 9 14 15 45 68 0.66 32 
19 Newport County 38 8 14 16 51 64 0.80 30 
20 Swindon Town 37 8 14 15 39 51 0.76 30 
21 Shrewsbury Town 36 11 8 17 49 68 0.72 30 
22 Colchester United 38 9 12 17 43 66 0.65 30 
23 Exeter City 38 9 12 17 39 63 0.62 30 
24 Walsall 37 6 12 19 60 74 0.81 24 

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