Football League Division Three
Saturday, March 28, 1959

Swindon Town Colchester United
A.Darcy (70'), W.Marshall (88')
 HT: 0-0
Attendance:  8,876   Referee:  W. Clements


1
CHANDLER
2
NEAL
3
BINGLEY
4
FOUNTAIN
5
CHAMBERLAIN
6
TILLEY
7
SKULL
8
RICHARDS
9
MARSHALL
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY
1
AMES
2
MARSHALL
3
FOWLER
4
HAMMOND
5
MILLIGAN
6
HUNT
7
BLAKE
8
HILL
9
LANGMAN
10
WILLIAMS
11
WRIGHT

Lineups
1
Ray CHANDLER
                 
Percy AMES
1
2
John NEAL
                 
Alf MARSHALL
2
3
Walter BINGLEY
                 
John FOWLER
3
4
Jack FOUNTAIN
                 
Cyril HAMMOND
4
5
Peter CHAMBERLAIN
                 
Chic MILLIGAN
5
6
Rex TILLEY
                 
Ron HUNT
6
7
John SKULL
                 
Russell BLAKE
7

8
John RICHARDS
                 
Bobby HILL
8

9
William MARSHALL
               
Neil LANGMAN
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
                 
Tommy WILLIAMS
10
11
Arnold DARCY
               
Peter WRIGHT
11















Results on Saturday, March 28, 1959: League Table
 
  Accrington Stanley 4 - 2 Rochdale  
  Bradford City 6 - 1 Southend United  
  Brentford 1 - 1 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Chesterfield 3 - 2 Tranmere Rovers  
  Halifax Town 5 - 1 Doncaster Rovers  
  Hull City 3 - 3 Norwich City  
  Mansfield Town 1 - 0 Reading  
  Newport County 0 - 1 Plymouth Argyle  
  Notts County 0 - 2 Stockport County  
  Southampton 1 - 0 Queens Park Rangers  
  Swindon Town 2 - 0 Colchester United  
  Wrexham 0 - 0 Bury  

Table as at Saturday, March 28, 1959:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Plymouth Argyle 39 21 11 7 82 54 1.52 53 
2 Hull City 38 22 7 9 80 45 1.78 51 
3 Brentford 37 18 12 7 62 36 1.72 48 
4 Tranmere Rovers 40 18 7 15 68 60 1.13 43 
5 Reading 38 17 8 13 63 50 1.26 42 
6 Colchester United 38 16 10 12 60 55 1.09 42 
7 Southend United 38 17 7 14 70 65 1.08 41 
8 Bury 39 15 10 14 60 49 1.22 40 
9 Southampton 39 15 10 14 79 69 1.14 40 
10 Accrington Stanley 39 15 10 14 65 59 1.10 40 
11 Norwich City 33 15 9 9 62 47 1.32 39 
12 Chesterfield 39 14 9 16 62 59 1.05 37 
13 Halifax Town 35 16 5 14 59 64 0.92 37 
14 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 39 14 9 16 54 61 0.89 37 
15 Queens Park Rangers 38 15 7 16 62 72 0.86 37 
16 Newport County 38 14 8 16 59 60 0.98 36 
17 Bradford City 39 13 9 17 69 71 0.97 35 
18 Mansfield Town 37 13 9 15 64 83 0.77 35 
19 Swindon Town 37 13 8 16 46 47 0.98 34 
20 Wrexham 36 11 11 14 50 60 0.83 33 
21 Stockport County 38 12 8 18 56 65 0.86 32 
22 Notts County 39 8 12 19 51 79 0.65 28 
23 Doncaster Rovers 40 13 2 25 45 83 0.54 28 
24 Rochdale 39 7 10 22 35 70 0.50 24 

Key: Promotion Relegation