Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, April 13, 1957

Reading Swindon Town
D.Webb (2')
 HT: 1-0
Attendance:  5,925   Referee:  K. Stokes


1
MEESON
2
MCLAREN
3
REEVES
4
ANDERTON
5
SPIERS
6
EVANS
7
WILSON
8
WHEELER
9
KIRKUP
10
WEBB
11
DIXON
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
EARL
4
JACK
5
HUDSON
6
FOUNTAIN
7
RICHARDS
8
PEMBERY
9
MICKLEWRIGHT
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Dave MEESON
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Eddie MCLAREN
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Ray REEVES
                 
Stan EARL
3
4
Sylvan ANDERTON
                 
Vince JACK
4
5
Dick SPIERS
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Maurice EVANS
                 
Jack FOUNTAIN
6
7
Tom WILSON
                 
John RICHARDS
7

8
Jimmy WHEELER
                 
Gordon PEMBERY
8

9
Brian KIRKUP
                 
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
9
10
Duggie WEBB
               
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Tommy DIXON
                 
Arnold DARCY
11















Results on Saturday, April 13, 1957: League Table
 
  Colchester United 1 - 1 Aldershot  
  Coventry City 3 - 3 Shrewsbury Town  
  Crystal Palace 1 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Exeter City 1 - 2 Ipswich Town  
  Newport County 3 - 0 Brentford  
  Northampton Town 2 - 1 Millwall  
  Norwich City 1 - 2 Watford  
  Plymouth Argyle 2 - 0 Gillingham  
  Queens Park Rangers 0 - 0 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Reading 1 - 0 Swindon Town  
  Southampton 3 - 1 Walsall  
  Southend United 2 - 0 Torquay United  

Table as at Saturday, April 13, 1957:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Colchester United 41 20 14 7 77 46 1.67 54 
2 Torquay United 41 21 10 10 79 62 1.27 52 
3 Ipswich Town 41 21 8 12 89 48 1.85 50 
4 Southampton 40 20 9 11 70 44 1.59 49 
5 Brighton and Hove Albion 41 17 12 12 72 58 1.24 46 
6 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 40 15 14 11 73 53 1.38 44 
7 Reading 41 17 9 15 73 68 1.07 43 
8 Walsall 41 15 12 14 74 64 1.16 42 
9 Queens Park Rangers 40 16 10 14 52 50 1.04 42 
10 Brentford 41 14 14 13 70 71 0.99 42 
11 Shrewsbury Town 40 12 18 10 64 70 0.91 42 
12 Northampton Town 41 16 9 16 62 63 0.98 41 
13 Newport County 40 14 12 14 59 52 1.13 40 
14 Millwall 41 15 10 16 57 76 0.75 40 
15 Watford 40 15 9 16 64 65 0.98 39 
16 Aldershot 41 14 11 16 75 83 0.90 39 
17 Southend United 40 14 10 16 58 61 0.95 38 
18 Plymouth Argyle 41 14 9 18 60 67 0.90 37 
19 Coventry City 42 12 12 18 65 80 0.81 36 
20 Gillingham 41 12 12 17 52 70 0.74 36 
21 Crystal Palace 41 10 15 16 55 68 0.81 35 
22 Exeter City 41 10 12 19 54 71 0.76 32 
23 Swindon Town 41 13 5 23 58 92 0.63 31 
24 Norwich City 41 7 14 20 55 85 0.65 28 

Key: Promotion Re-election