Football League Division Three (South)
Thursday, September 1, 1955

Northampton Town Swindon Town
T.Fowler (??'), E.Smith (??')
HT: 1-1 B.Edwards (??')
Attendance:  11,102    


1
PICKERING
2
MARSTON
3
PATTERSON
4
YEOMAN
5
COLLINS
6
SMITH
7
ENGLISH
8
NEWMAN
9
DAWSON
10
SMITH
11
FOWLER
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
MCSHANE
7
GIBSON
8
ONSLOW
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
SAMPSON

Lineups
1
Peter PICKERING
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Maurice MARSTON
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Ronnie PATTERSON
                 
Peter HILTON
3
4
Ray YEOMAN
                 
Jim CROSS
4
5
Ben COLLINS
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
John SMITH
                 
Anthony MCSHANE
6
7
Jack ENGLISH
                 
Dave GIBSON
7

8
Ron NEWMAN
                 
Roy ONSLOW
8

9
William DAWSON
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Eddie SMITH
             
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Tommy FOWLER
               
Ray SAMPSON
11













Results on Thursday, September 1, 1955: League Table

 
  Colchester United 1 - 0 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Leyton Orient 2 - 0 Gillingham  
  Newport County 0 - 1 Aldershot  
  Northampton Town 2 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Walsall 2 - 2 Brighton and Hove Albion  

Table as at Thursday, September 1, 1955:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Northampton Town 4 4 0 0 9 3 3.00
2 Aldershot 4 3 1 0 8 1 8.00
3 Leyton Orient 4 3 1 0 6 1 6.00
4 Southend United 4 3 0 1 11 8 1.38
5 Torquay United 4 2 1 1 6 6 1.00
6 Shrewsbury Town 4 2 0 2 13 5 2.60
7 Coventry City 4 2 0 2 7 4 1.75
8 Gillingham 4 2 0 2 7 4 1.75
9 Queens Park Rangers 4 1 2 1 6 4 1.50
10 Crystal Palace 4 1 2 1 7 5 1.40
11 Millwall 4 2 0 2 9 7 1.29
12 Brighton and Hove Albion 4 1 2 1 6 6 1.00
13 Exeter City 4 1 2 1 4 4 1.00
14 Brentford 4 1 2 1 4 5 0.80
15 Watford 4 2 0 2 6 9 0.67
16 Norwich City 4 2 0 2 5 10 0.50
17 Ipswich Town 4 1 1 2 7 8 0.88
18 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 4 1 1 2 4 5 0.80
19 Colchester United 4 1 1 2 5 9 0.56
20 Southampton 4 1 1 2 6 11 0.55
21 Swindon Town 4 1 0 3 4 6 0.67
22 Reading 4 1 0 3 4 11 0.36
23 Newport County 4 1 0 3 2 8 0.25
24 Walsall 4 0 1 3 4 10 0.40

Key: Promotion Re-election