Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, April 25, 1956

Swindon Town Queens Park Rangers

HT: 0-0 C.Smith (??')
Attendance:  4,617    


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
FOX
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
WILLIAMS
7
GIBSON
8
AGAR
9
OWEN
10
RICHARDS
11
EDWARDS
1
SPRINGETT
2
RHODES
3
INGHAM
4
PETCHEY
5
RUTTER
6
DEAN
7
KERRINS
8
SMITH
9
CLARK
10
CAMERON
11
ANGELL

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
  Ron SPRINGETT
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Albert RHODES
2
3
Geoff FOX
                 
Tony INGHAM
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
George PETCHEY
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Keith RUTTER
5
6
Gordon WILLIAMS
                 
Joby DEAN
6
7
Dave GIBSON
                 
Pat KERRINS
7

8
Roy AGAR
               
Conway SMITH
8

9
Maurice OWEN
                 
Willie CLARK
9
10
John RICHARDS
                 
Bobby CAMERON
10
11
Bob EDWARDS
                 
Peter ANGELL
11













Results on Wednesday, April 25, 1956: League Table

 
  Gillingham 2 - 1 Colchester United  
  Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Norwich City 0 - 2 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Reading 1 - 2 Exeter City  
  Southend United 1 - 0 Watford  
  Swindon Town 0 - 1 Queens Park Rangers  
  Torquay United 5 - 0 Aldershot  

Table as at Wednesday, April 25, 1956:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Leyton Orient 42 28 8 6 102 38 2.68 64 
2 Brighton and Hove Albion 45 28 7 10 109 48 2.27 63 
3 Ipswich Town 44 24 13 7 103 58 1.78 61 
4 Southend United 44 21 11 12 86 72 1.19 53 
5 Norwich City 44 19 13 12 84 78 1.08 51 
6 Torquay United 44 19 12 13 81 58 1.40 50 
7 Coventry City 45 20 8 17 73 60 1.22 48 
8 Brentford 44 17 14 13 65 65 1.00 48 
9 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 44 18 10 16 59 48 1.23 46 
10 Gillingham 44 18 10 16 66 68 0.97 46 
11 Colchester United 45 17 11 17 73 79 0.92 45 
12 Northampton Town 44 19 7 18 60 68 0.88 45 
13 Shrewsbury Town 44 16 11 17 66 65 1.02 43 
14 Southampton 45 17 8 20 88 80 1.10 42 
15 Newport County 44 15 9 20 58 73 0.79 39 
16 Aldershot 45 12 15 18 69 89 0.78 39 
17 Reading 45 15 8 22 70 79 0.89 38 
18 Exeter City 45 14 10 21 56 76 0.74 38 
19 Queens Park Rangers 45 13 11 21 61 84 0.73 37 
20 Watford 45 13 11 21 52 83 0.63 37 
21 Walsall 43 14 8 21 62 79 0.78 36 
22 Crystal Palace 43 11 10 22 53 77 0.69 32 
23 Millwall 42 12 6 24 71 98 0.72 30 
24 Swindon Town 45 8 13 24 33 77 0.43 29 

Key: Promotion Re-election