Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, August 21, 1954

Colchester United Swindon Town

HT: 0-0
Attendance:  9,767   Referee:  W.E. Dellow


1
KIRK
2
HARRISON
3
LEWIS
4
MCCOURT
5
STEWART
6
ELDER
7
BIRCH
8
DALE
9
MCCURLEY
10
LEONARD
11
WRIGHT
1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
PAGE
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
JOHNSTON
7
BULL
8
ONSLOW
9
OWEN
10
WILLIAMS
11
BEARDS

Lineups
1
Jimmy KIRK
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
John HARRISON
                 
George HUNT
2
3
Fred LEWIS
                 
Mick PAGE
3
4
Frank MCCOURT  
                 
Jim CROSS
4
5
Reg STEWART
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Jimmy ELDER
                 
Jimmy JOHNSTON
6
7
Cliff BIRCH
                 
Mike BULL
7

8
Bobby DALE
                 
Roy ONSLOW
8

9
Kevin MCCURLEY
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Paddy LEONARD
                 
Henry WILLIAMS
10
11
Peter WRIGHT
                 
Alan BEARDS
11















Results on Saturday, August 21, 1954: League Table
 
  Colchester United 0 - 0 Swindon Town  
  Coventry City 1 - 0 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Exeter City 2 - 0 Crystal Palace  
  Gillingham 1 - 1 Bristol City  
  Leyton Orient 2 - 1 Torquay United  
  Millwall 2 - 0 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Newport County 0 - 1 Northampton Town  
  Norwich City 4 - 3 Aldershot  
  Queens Park Rangers 2 - 1 Watford  
  Reading 2 - 2 Walsall  
  Southampton 6 - 4 Brentford  
  Southend United 4 - 1 Shrewsbury Town  

Table as at Saturday, August 21, 1954:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Exeter City 1 1 0 0 2 0 ∞ 2 
2 Millwall 1 1 0 0 2 0 ∞ 2 
3 Coventry City 1 1 0 0 1 0 ∞ 2 
4 Northampton Town 1 1 0 0 1 0 ∞ 2 
5 Southend United 1 1 0 0 4 1 4.00 2 
6 Leyton Orient 1 1 0 0 2 1 2.00 2 
7 Queens Park Rangers 1 1 0 0 2 1 2.00 2 
8 Southampton 1 1 0 0 6 4 1.50 2 
9 Norwich City 1 1 0 0 4 3 1.33 2 
10 Colchester United 1 0 1 0 0 0 ∞ 1 
11 Swindon Town 1 0 1 0 0 0 ∞ 1 
12 Reading 1 0 1 0 2 2 1.00 1 
13 Walsall 1 0 1 0 2 2 1.00 1 
14 Bristol City 1 0 1 0 1 1 1.00 1 
15 Gillingham 1 0 1 0 1 1 1.00 1 
16 Aldershot 1 0 0 1 3 4 0.75 0 
17 Brentford 1 0 0 1 4 6 0.67 0 
18 Torquay United 1 0 0 1 1 2 0.50 0 
19 Watford 1 0 0 1 1 2 0.50 0 
20 Shrewsbury Town 1 0 0 1 1 4 0.25 0 
21 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 1 0 0 1 0 1 0.00 0 
22 Newport County 1 0 0 1 0 1 0.00 0 
23 Brighton and Hove Albion 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.00 0 
24 Crystal Palace 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.00 0 

Key: Promotion Re-election