Football League Division Three (South)
Wednesday, September 21, 1955

Swindon Town Aldershot
M.Owen (??')
HT: 0-1 J.Gaynor (??')
Attendance:  4,293    


1
BURTON
2
HUNT
3
HILTON
4
CROSS
5
HUDSON
6
MCSHANE
7
RISEBOROUGH
8
GIBSON
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
SAMPSON
1
AMOS
2
MONK
3
GILCHRIST
4
ALISON
5
BILLINGTON
6
LACEY
7
GAYNOR
8
CHENEY
9
GAYNOR
10
MENZIES
11
FLINT

Lineups
1
Sam BURTON
                 
Keith AMOS
1
2
George HUNT
                 
Fred MONK
2
3
Peter HILTON
                 
Bob GILCHRIST
3
4
Jim CROSS
                 
Jimmy ALISON
4
5
Garth HUDSON
                 
Charlie BILLINGTON
5
6
Anthony MCSHANE
                 
Bill LACEY
6
7
Cyril RISEBOROUGH
               
Jimmy GAYNOR
7

8
Dave GIBSON
                 
Denis CHENEY
8

9
Maurice OWEN
               
Len GAYNOR
9
10
Bob EDWARDS
                 
Norman MENZIES
10
11
Ray SAMPSON
                 
Ken FLINT
11













Results on Wednesday, September 21, 1955: League Table

 
  Gillingham 2 - 1 Exeter City  
  Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Shrewsbury Town  
  Norwich City 1 - 1 Colchester United  
  Reading 1 - 0 Coventry City  
  Southampton 4 - 1 Walsall  
  Southend United 3 - 1 Millwall  
  Swindon Town 1 - 1 Aldershot  
  Torquay United 0 - 0 Brighton and Hove Albion  

Table as at Wednesday, September 21, 1955:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Northampton Town 10 8 0 2 21 12 1.75 16 
2 Southend United 10 7 1 2 24 15 1.60 15 
3 Ipswich Town 10 6 2 2 25 15 1.67 14 
4 Torquay United 10 5 3 2 18 9 2.00 13 
5 Gillingham 10 6 1 3 17 12 1.42 13 
6 Aldershot 10 5 3 2 21 15 1.40 13 
7 Norwich City 10 5 3 2 17 17 1.00 13 
8 Leyton Orient 9 5 2 2 16 5 3.20 12 
9 Brighton and Hove Albion 10 4 4 2 15 10 1.50 12 
10 Millwall 10 4 2 4 24 17 1.41 10 
11 Coventry City 10 4 2 4 15 11 1.36 10 
12 Brentford 10 3 4 3 11 13 0.85 10 
13 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 9 4 1 4 13 15 0.87
14 Crystal Palace 9 2 4 3 14 12 1.17
15 Southampton 10 3 2 5 20 23 0.87
16 Queens Park Rangers 10 1 6 3 13 17 0.76
17 Newport County 9 3 2 4 12 19 0.63
18 Watford 10 3 2 5 10 22 0.45
19 Reading 10 3 1 6 15 19 0.79
20 Exeter City 10 1 5 4 9 12 0.75
21 Colchester United 10 2 3 5 9 23 0.39
22 Shrewsbury Town 10 2 2 6 19 19 1.00
23 Walsall 10 1 3 6 15 28 0.54
24 Swindon Town 10 1 2 7 8 21 0.38

Key: Promotion Re-election