Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, August 20, 1955

Southampton Swindon Town
T.Mulgrew (??'), J.Walker (??')
 HT: 1-1 B.Edwards (??')
Attendance:  17,773    


1
KIERNAN
2
ELLERINGTON
3
TRAYNOR
4
MCLAUGHLIN
5
WILKINS
6
ELLIOTT
7
BROWN
8
MULGREW
9
DAY
10
WALKER
11
HOSKINS
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
MCSHANE
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
RISEBOROUGH
8
ONSLOW
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
EDDS

Lineups
1
Fred KIERNAN  
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Bill ELLERINGTON  
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Tommy TRAYNOR  
                 
Peter HILTON
3
4
Bobby MCLAUGHLIN
                 
Anthony MCSHANE
4
5
Len WILKINS
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Bryn ELLIOTT
                 
Gordon WILLIAMS
6
7
Peter BROWN
                 
Cyril RISEBOROUGH
7

8
Tommy MULGREW
               
Roy ONSLOW
8

9
Eric DAY
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Johnny WALKER
             
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
John HOSKINS view STFC profile
                 
Ernie EDDS
11















Results on Saturday, August 20, 1955: League Table
 
  Brentford 1 - 4 Gillingham  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 1 - 1 Queens Park Rangers  
  Coventry City 3 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Crystal Palace 2 - 3 Northampton Town  
  Exeter City 0 - 0 Colchester United  
  Ipswich Town 0 - 2 Torquay United  
  Reading 0 - 5 Aldershot  
  Shrewsbury Town 5 - 0 Newport County  
  Southampton 2 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Southend United 3 - 1 Norwich City  
  Walsall 0 - 2 Leyton Orient  
  Watford 4 - 2 Millwall  

Table as at Saturday, August 20, 1955:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Aldershot 1 1 0 0 5 0 ∞ 2 
2 Shrewsbury Town 1 1 0 0 5 0 ∞ 2 
3 Leyton Orient 1 1 0 0 2 0 ∞ 2 
4 Torquay United 1 1 0 0 2 0 ∞ 2 
5 Gillingham 1 1 0 0 4 1 4.00 2 
6 Coventry City 1 1 0 0 3 1 3.00 2 
7 Southend United 1 1 0 0 3 1 3.00 2 
8 Watford 1 1 0 0 4 2 2.00 2 
9 Southampton 1 1 0 0 2 1 2.00 2 
10 Northampton Town 1 1 0 0 3 2 1.50 2 
11 Colchester United 1 0 1 0 0 0 ∞ 1 
12 Exeter City 1 0 1 0 0 0 ∞ 1 
13 Brighton and Hove Albion 1 0 1 0 1 1 1.00 1 
14 Queens Park Rangers 1 0 1 0 1 1 1.00 1 
15 Crystal Palace 1 0 0 1 2 3 0.67 0 
16 Millwall 1 0 0 1 2 4 0.50 0 
17 Swindon Town 1 0 0 1 1 2 0.50 0 
18 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 1 0 0 1 1 3 0.33 0 
19 Norwich City 1 0 0 1 1 3 0.33 0 
20 Brentford 1 0 0 1 1 4 0.25 0 
21 Ipswich Town 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.00 0 
22 Walsall 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.00 0 
23 Newport County 1 0 0 1 0 5 0.00 0 
24 Reading 1 0 0 1 0 5 0.00 0 

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