Football League Division Three
Wednesday, October 7, 1959

Swindon Town Accrington Stanley

HT: 0-0 H.McCreadie (65')
Attendance:  7,884   Referee:  C.A.R. Woan


1
BURTON
2
CHAMBERLAIN
3
BINGLEY
4
MORGAN
5
MELLOR
6
WOODRUFF
7
DARCY
8
EDWARDS
9
RICHARDS
10
GAULD
11
LAYNE
1
BROWN
2
GARRITY
3
HARROWER
4
NIGHTINGALE
5
JACK
6
SNEDDON
7
ANDERS
8
TIGHE
9
MCCREADIE
10
KEELEY
11
NESS

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Willie BROWN
1
2
Peter CHAMBERLAIN
                 
Ken GARRITY
2
3
Walter BINGLEY
                 
Jimmy HARROWER
3
4
Keith MORGAN
                 
Ron NIGHTINGALE
4
5
Ken MELLOR
                 
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5
6
Bobby WOODRUFF
                 
Charlie SNEDDON
6
7
Arnold DARCY
                 
Harry ANDERS
7

8
Bob EDWARDS
                 
Terry TIGHE
8

9
John RICHARDS
               
Harvey MCCREADIE
9
10
Jimmy GAULD
                 
Jackie KEELEY
10
11
David LAYNE
                 
Hugh NESS
11













Results on Wednesday, October 7, 1959: League Table
 
  Barnsley 1 - 0 Southampton  
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 2 - 0 York City  
  Swindon Town 0 - 1 Accrington Stanley  
  Wrexham 4 - 3 Bradford City  

Table as at Wednesday, October 7, 1959:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Queens Park Rangers 14 8 4 2 24 8 3.00 20 
2 Halifax Town 14 8 4 2 21 14 1.50 20 
3 Coventry City 14 7 5 2 25 11 2.27 19 
4 Norwich City 14 8 3 3 28 16 1.75 19 
5 Swindon Town 14 8 2 4 25 19 1.32 18 
6 Bury 14 8 1 5 19 10 1.90 17 
7 Shrewsbury Town 14 7 3 4 35 25 1.40 17 
8 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 14 8 1 5 26 23 1.13 17 
9 Southampton 14 6 4 4 35 29 1.21 16 
10 Grimsby Town 14 5 5 4 32 22 1.45 15 
11 Barnsley 14 6 3 5 20 17 1.18 15 
12 Newport County 13 6 3 4 20 20 1.00 15 
13 Brentford 14 5 4 5 25 23 1.09 14 
14 York City 14 4 5 5 17 19 0.89 13 
15 Bradford City 14 5 2 7 27 28 0.96 12 
16 Colchester United 14 5 2 7 27 31 0.87 12 
17 Tranmere Rovers 14 4 3 7 23 19 1.21 11 
18 Port Vale 13 5 1 7 16 29 0.55 11 
19 Southend United 14 4 2 8 16 31 0.52 10 
20 Accrington Stanley 14 3 3 8 15 35 0.43 9 
21 Reading 14 2 4 8 26 31 0.84 8 
22 Chesterfield 12 4 0 8 19 28 0.68 8 
23 Wrexham 13 3 2 8 19 32 0.59 8 
24 Mansfield Town 13 1 4 8 17 37 0.46 6 

Key: Promotion Relegation