Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, January 3, 1948

Swindon Town Aldershot
G.Paterson (53')
 HT: 0-0
Attendance:  13,893   Referee:  A. Blythe


1
BOULTON
2
YOUNG
3
EMERY
4
KAYE
5
ITHELL
6
PAINTER
7
DRYDEN
8
LUCAS
9
JONES
10
PATERSON
11
MAGUIRE
1
REYNOLDS
2
ROGERS
3
SHEPPARD
4
SHERWOOD
5
ROWLAND
6
CROPLEY
7
HOBBS
8
MYCOCK
9
WHITE
10
MCNICHOL
11
HASSELL

Lineups
1
Frank BOULTON
                 
Ron REYNOLDS
1
2
Albert YOUNG
                 
Alf ROGERS
2
3
Don EMERY
                 
Hedley SHEPPARD
3
4
Harry KAYE
                 
Jack SHERWOOD
4
5
Jimmy ITHELL
                 
Alf ROWLAND
5
6
Edward PAINTER
                 
Jack CROPLEY
6
7
Jackie DRYDEN
                 
Ronnie HOBBS
7

8
Billy LUCAS
                 
Tommy MYCOCK
8

9
Morris JONES
                 
Jack WHITE
9
10
George PATERSON
               
Alex MCNICHOL
10
11
Ted MAGUIRE
                 
Tommy HASSELL
11















Results on Saturday, January 3, 1948: League Table
 
  Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 4 - 1 Brighton and Hove Albion  
  Bristol City 1 - 0 Notts County  
  Ipswich Town 3 - 2 Swansea Town  
  Leyton Orient 2 - 4 Exeter City  
  Port Vale 1 - 0 Northampton Town  
  Queens Park Rangers 5 - 2 Bristol Rovers  
  Reading 1 - 3 Southend United  
  Swindon Town 1 - 0 Aldershot  
  Torquay United 3 - 3 Crystal Palace  
  Walsall 1 - 1 Newport County  
  Watford 2 - 2 Norwich City  

Table as at Saturday, January 3, 1948:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Queens Park Rangers 24 17 3 4 52 22 2.36 37 
2 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 23 12 5 6 41 22 1.86 29 
3 Swansea Town 25 11 7 7 48 35 1.37 29 
4 Walsall 22 12 4 6 43 23 1.87 28 
5 Exeter City 22 10 7 5 30 26 1.15 27 
6 Bristol City 22 12 2 8 49 27 1.81 26 
7 Ipswich Town 21 12 2 7 39 27 1.44 26 
8 Port Vale 22 10 5 7 42 30 1.40 25 
9 Newport County 23 8 9 6 32 30 1.07 25 
10 Southend United 23 10 5 8 29 40 0.73 25 
11 Torquay United 21 7 9 5 34 28 1.21 23 
12 Swindon Town 22 7 9 6 26 23 1.13 23 
13 Crystal Palace 23 7 8 8 23 27 0.85 22 
14 Reading 22 7 6 9 29 31 0.94 20 
15 Bristol Rovers 24 6 8 10 39 43 0.91 20 
16 Aldershot 21 6 7 8 27 32 0.84 19 
17 Northampton Town 21 7 5 9 25 31 0.81 19 
18 Notts County 21 6 6 9 27 32 0.84 18 
19 Watford 21 6 4 11 27 43 0.63 16 
20 Norwich City 22 3 5 14 23 47 0.49 11 
21 Leyton Orient 23 3 5 15 23 58 0.40 11 
22 Brighton and Hove Albion 22 3 5 14 17 48 0.35 11 

Key: Promotion Re-election