Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, March 14, 1931

Newport County Swindon Town
C.Pearce (18'), J.Gittins (30' pen, 85')
HT: 2-0 N.Kirby (75')
Attendance:  2,872    


1
BLAKEMORE
2
FOX
3
WHEELER
4
CLIFFORD
5
LAWSON
6
RILEY
7
BROWN
8
GITTINS
9
PEARCE
10
BAGLEY
11
THOMAS
1
COPE
2
STANSFIELD
3
GIRVAN
4
LOW
5
COCKBURN
6
BRAITHWAITE
7
MUNNINGS
8
GUYAN
9
MORRIS
10
RICHARDSON
11
KIRBY

Lineups
 
Len BLAKEMORE
                 
Harry COPE
 
 
Victor FOX
                 
Harold STANSFIELD
 
 
George WHEELER
                 
Hector GIRVAN
 
 
Jack CLIFFORD
                 
David LOW
 
 
Hector LAWSON
                 
Bill COCKBURN
 
 
Val RILEY
                 
Ted BRAITHWAITE
 
 
Ernie BROWN
                 
Eddie MUNNINGS
 

 
Jimmy GITTINS
               
George GUYAN
 

 
Cyril PEARCE
               
Harry MORRIS
 
 
Billy BAGLEY
                 
Frank RICHARDSON
 
 
Billy THOMAS  
               
Norman KIRBY
 















Results on Saturday, March 14, 1931: League Table

 
  Brentford 3 - 1 Norwich City  
  Brighton and Hove Albion 1 - 3 Notts County  
  Bristol Rovers 2 - 1 Fulham  
  Crystal Palace 4 - 0 Queens Park Rangers  
  Exeter City 2 - 1 Watford  
  Gillingham 0 - 0 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Luton Town 2 - 0 Coventry City  
  Newport County 3 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Northampton Town 4 - 1 Thames  
  Southend United 2 - 0 Walsall  
  Torquay United 5 - 2 Leyton Orient  

Table as at Saturday, March 14, 1931:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Notts County 33 21 7 5 85 38 2.24 49 
2 Northampton Town 33 16 8 9 65 41 1.59 40 
3 Brentford 33 16 6 11 74 55 1.35 38 
4 Southend United 32 17 4 11 62 49 1.27 38 
5 Crystal Palace 32 16 5 11 83 58 1.43 37 
6 Brighton and Hove Albion 32 13 11 8 51 40 1.28 37 
7 Torquay United 34 15 7 12 69 68 1.01 37 
8 Fulham 33 15 6 12 62 60 1.03 36 
9 Luton Town 33 14 7 12 53 45 1.18 35 
10 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 33 12 11 10 61 59 1.03 35 
11 Swindon Town 33 16 3 14 68 68 1.00 35 
12 Exeter City 32 12 8 12 58 68 0.85 32 
13 Coventry City 32 13 5 14 60 50 1.20 31 
14 Queens Park Rangers 33 14 3 16 65 60 1.08 31 
15 Gillingham 33 10 10 13 47 57 0.82 30 
16 Bristol Rovers 34 11 8 15 60 80 0.75 30 
17 Watford 33 11 6 16 57 62 0.92 28 
18 Walsall 33 10 7 16 65 78 0.83 27 
19 Leyton Orient 30 11 5 14 46 59 0.78 27 
20 Thames 33 10 5 18 44 80 0.55 25 
21 Newport County 33 9 3 21 60 95 0.63 21 
22 Norwich City 33 7 7 19 39 64 0.61 21 

Key: Promotion Re-election