Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, October 5, 1957

Gillingham Swindon Town
B.Payne (63'), R.Saunders (75')
HT: 0-0 J.Skull (48')
Attendance:  8,544   Referee:  T. Jepson


1
BRODIE
2
PARRY
3
HANNAWAY
4
EVANS
5
BOSWELL
6
LAING
7
PAYNE
8
MORGAN
9
SAUNDERS
10
HUTTON
11
LUCAS
1
BURTON
2
NEAL
3
LEE
4
CLAYTON
5
HUDSON
6
MCDONALD
7
SKULL
8
RICHARDS
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Chic BRODIE
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Bill PARRY
                 
John NEAL
2
3
Jack HANNAWAY
                 
Jimmy LEE
3
4
John EVANS
                 
Lewis CLAYTON
4
5
Jimmy BOSWELL
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Davie LAING
                 
Gordon MCDONALD
6
7
Brian PAYNE
             
John SKULL
7

8
Wendell MORGAN
                 
John RICHARDS
8

9
Ron SAUNDERS
               
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Joe HUTTON
                 
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Paul LUCAS
                 
Arnold DARCY
11















Results on Saturday, October 5, 1957: League Table

 
  Brighton and Hove Albion 5 - 3 Newport County  
  Coventry City 1 - 0 Colchester United  
  Exeter City 3 - 0 Aldershot  
  Gillingham 2 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Millwall 2 - 3 Watford  
  Northampton Town 1 - 2 Crystal Palace  
  Queens Park Rangers 1 - 0 Plymouth Argyle  
  Reading 1 - 0 Torquay United  
  Shrewsbury Town 0 - 2 Brentford  
  Southampton 7 - 0 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic  
  Southend United 1 - 1 Port Vale  
  Walsall 2 - 1 Norwich City  

Table as at Saturday, October 5, 1957:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Brighton and Hove Albion 13 8 1 4 24 21 1.14 17 
2 Plymouth Argyle 13 8 0 5 19 12 1.58 16 
3 Port Vale 12 6 3 3 19 9 2.11 15 
4 Swindon Town 13 6 3 4 23 14 1.64 15 
5 Norwich City 12 6 3 3 19 18 1.06 15 
6 Southampton 13 6 2 5 33 21 1.57 14 
7 Watford 13 4 6 3 16 12 1.33 14 
8 Brentford 13 6 2 5 29 23 1.26 14 
9 Reading 12 5 3 4 23 14 1.64 13 
10 Southend United 13 6 1 6 31 19 1.63 13 
11 Millwall 13 6 1 6 22 19 1.16 13 
12 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 13 5 3 5 21 24 0.88 13 
13 Crystal Palace 13 4 4 5 17 17 1.00 12 
14 Newport County 12 4 4 4 15 20 0.75 12 
15 Shrewsbury Town 13 4 4 5 11 17 0.65 12 
16 Queens Park Rangers 13 5 2 6 12 24 0.50 12 
17 Walsall 11 4 3 4 14 16 0.88 11 
18 Coventry City 11 4 3 4 12 17 0.71 11 
19 Gillingham 13 5 1 7 14 20 0.70 11 
20 Aldershot 13 4 3 6 14 21 0.67 11 
21 Colchester United 13 4 3 6 17 26 0.65 11 
22 Northampton Town 13 4 2 7 19 24 0.79 10 
23 Exeter City 13 3 4 6 15 23 0.65 10 
24 Torquay United 13 3 3 7 10 18 0.56

Key: Promotion Relegation