Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, December 21, 1957

Newport County Swindon Town
H.Harris (41'), P.Terry (63', 86'), A.Sherwood (66' pen)
HT: 1-0 J.Skull (65')
Attendance:  8,000   Referee:  C.H. Sant


1
HUGHES
2
HOLLYMAN
3
SHERWOOD
4
GRAHAM
5
WILCOX
6
THOMAS
7
DIXON
8
MCSEVENEY
9
TERRY
10
HARRIS
11
BROWN
1
BURTON
2
NEAL
3
LEE
4
CLAYTON
5
HUDSON
6
OWEN
7
SKULL
8
MOORE
9
ROOST
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Iorrie HUGHES  
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Ken HOLLYMAN
                 
John NEAL
2
3
Alf SHERWOOD  
               
Jimmy LEE
3
4
Les GRAHAM
                 
Lewis CLAYTON
4
5
Ray WILCOX
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
George THOMAS
                 
Maurice OWEN
6
7
Cecil DIXON
               
John SKULL
7

8
John MCSEVENEY
                 
Alan MOORE
8

9
Pat TERRY view STFC profile
               
Bill ROOST
9
10
Harry HARRIS
               
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Gordon BROWN
                 
Arnold DARCY
11















Results on Saturday, December 21, 1957: League Table

 
  Brentford 1 - 1 Queens Park Rangers  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 5 - 2 Gillingham  
  Crystal Palace 0 - 3 Norwich City  
  Newport County 4 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Northampton Town 3 - 0 Walsall  
  Plymouth Argyle 2 - 2 Shrewsbury Town  
  Port Vale 6 - 1 Aldershot  
  Reading 3 - 1 Coventry City  
  Southampton 3 - 2 Millwall  
  Southend United 2 - 0 Exeter City  
  Torquay United 1 - 3 Colchester United  
  Watford 1 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  

Table as at Saturday, December 21, 1957:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Brighton and Hove Albion 22 14 2 6 50 36 1.39 30 
2 Swindon Town 24 11 7 6 43 29 1.48 29 
3 Norwich City 23 10 9 4 41 36 1.14 29 
4 Port Vale 22 11 5 6 41 21 1.95 27 
5 Reading 22 10 7 5 39 22 1.77 27 
6 Brentford 22 11 5 6 40 29 1.38 27 
7 Plymouth Argyle 23 12 2 9 32 28 1.14 26 
8 Newport County 22 9 8 5 35 31 1.13 26 
9 Southampton 23 10 5 8 53 39 1.36 25 
10 Shrewsbury Town 23 9 7 7 28 33 0.85 25 
11 Colchester United 24 9 7 8 37 45 0.82 25 
12 Queens Park Rangers 22 10 4 8 31 32 0.97 24 
13 Southend United 22 9 5 8 46 27 1.70 23 
14 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 21 9 4 8 37 37 1.00 22 
15 Watford 24 6 10 8 31 32 0.97 22 
16 Crystal Palace 22 7 6 9 31 36 0.86 20 
17 Millwall 22 8 3 11 35 37 0.95 19 
18 Northampton Town 23 7 4 12 34 43 0.79 18 
19 Aldershot 22 6 4 12 26 43 0.60 16 
20 Coventry City 20 6 4 10 22 37 0.59 16 
21 Walsall 20 5 5 10 25 35 0.71 15 
22 Gillingham 21 6 3 12 23 36 0.64 15 
23 Torquay United 22 4 7 11 20 33 0.61 15 
24 Exeter City 23 4 5 14 25 48 0.52 13 

Key: Promotion Relegation