Football League Division Three
Saturday, February 7, 1959

Newport County Swindon Town
K.McPherson (28'), B.Jones (43'), L.Graham (73')
HT: 2-0
Attendance:  4,346   Referee:  F. Collinge


1
WEARE
2
HOLLYMAN
3
SHERWOOD
4
RIGGS
5
PEAKE
6
ROWLAND
7
MCSEVENEY
8
JONES
9
MCPHERSON
10
GRAHAM
11
BROWN
1
BURTON
2
NEAL
3
LEE
4
FOUNTAIN
5
HUDSON
6
OWEN
7
CORBETT
8
MIDDLETON
9
MICKLEWRIGHT
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Len WEARE
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Ken HOLLYMAN
                 
John NEAL
2
3
Alf SHERWOOD  
                 
Jimmy LEE
3
4
Les RIGGS
                 
Jack FOUNTAIN
4
5
Dudley PEAKE
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
John ROWLAND
                 
Maurice OWEN
6
7
John MCSEVENEY
                 
David CORBETT
7

8
Bryn JONES
               
Ray MIDDLETON
8

9
Ken MCPHERSON view STFC profile
               
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
9
10
Les GRAHAM
               
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Gordon BROWN
                 
Arnold DARCY
11















Results on Saturday, February 7, 1959: League Table

 
  Accrington Stanley 0 - 1 Hull City  
  Bury 0 - 1 Notts County  
  Chesterfield 3 - 1 Mansfield Town  
  Doncaster Rovers 5 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Halifax Town 0 - 0 Brentford  
  Newport County 3 - 0 Swindon Town  
  Plymouth Argyle 1 - 1 Colchester United  
  Queens Park Rangers 1 - 3 Southend United  
  Rochdale 1 - 2 Norwich City  
  Southampton 1 - 2 Bradford City  
  Stockport County 2 - 2 Wrexham  
  Tranmere Rovers 2 - 1 Reading  

Table as at Saturday, February 7, 1959:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Plymouth Argyle 29 16 10 3 62 36 1.72 42 
2 Hull City 32 18 6 8 64 39 1.64 42 
3 Southend United 31 14 7 10 55 49 1.12 35 
4 Colchester United 28 12 9 7 49 37 1.32 33 
5 Brentford 28 11 10 7 34 30 1.13 32 
6 Southampton 30 11 9 10 67 51 1.31 31 
7 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 32 13 5 14 49 52 0.94 31 
8 Bury 30 11 8 11 50 41 1.22 30 
9 Norwich City 28 11 8 9 49 41 1.20 30 
10 Reading 30 11 8 11 45 40 1.13 30 
11 Tranmere Rovers 29 12 6 11 48 43 1.12 30 
12 Chesterfield 31 11 8 12 50 47 1.06 30 
13 Halifax Town 28 13 4 11 47 51 0.92 30 
14 Accrington Stanley 28 11 7 10 48 41 1.17 29 
15 Swindon Town 28 11 7 10 35 32 1.09 29 
16 Newport County 28 11 7 10 47 44 1.07 29 
17 Bradford City 28 11 6 11 52 50 1.04 28 
18 Wrexham 29 10 8 11 45 51 0.88 28 
19 Mansfield Town 29 10 7 12 50 65 0.77 27 
20 Queens Park Rangers 29 10 6 13 44 59 0.75 26 
21 Stockport County 29 9 6 14 44 52 0.85 24 
22 Notts County 29 6 11 12 41 60 0.68 23 
23 Doncaster Rovers 31 8 2 21 32 65 0.49 18 
24 Rochdale 30 5 7 18 27 58 0.47 17 

Key: Promotion Relegation