Football League Division Three
Monday, August 21, 1961

Coventry City Swindon Town
S.Burton (23' o.g.), M.Grice (78')
HT: 1-1 R.Hunt (43')
Attendance:  13,755   Referee:  P. Rhodes


1
LIGHTENING
2
KLETZENBAUER
3
AUSTIN
4
NICHOLAS
5
CURTIS
6
FARMER
7
GRICE
8
HILL
9
MYERSCOUGH
10
HEWITT
11
IMLACH
1
BURTON
2
JONES
3
TROLLOPE
4
MORGAN
5
OWEN
6
BELL
7
SUMMERBEE
8
HUNT
9
MCPHERSON
10
HUNT
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Arthur LIGHTENING
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Frank KLETZENBAUER
                 
Ken JONES
2
3
Frank AUSTIN
                 
John TROLLOPE
3
4
Brian NICHOLAS
                 
Keith MORGAN
4
5
George CURTIS
                 
Maurice OWEN
5
6
Ron FARMER
                 
John BELL
6
7
Mike GRICE
               
  Mike SUMMERBEE
7

8
Peter HILL
                 
Ernie HUNT
8

9
Billy MYERSCOUGH
                 
Ken MCPHERSON
9
10
Ron HEWITT  
               
Ralph HUNT
10
11
Stewart IMLACH  
                 
Arnold DARCY
11













Results on Monday, August 21, 1961: League Table

 
  Coventry City 2 - 1 Swindon Town  
  Newport County 0 - 2 Barnsley  
  Port Vale 4 - 0 Hull City  
  Queens Park Rangers 3 - 6 Reading  

Table as at Monday, August 21, 1961:

  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Reading 2 2 0 0 10 3 3.33
2 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 1 1 0 0 2 0
3 Grimsby Town 1 1 0 0 2 0
4 Notts County 1 1 0 0 1 0
5 Halifax Town 1 1 0 0 3 1 3.00
6 Portsmouth 1 1 0 0 3 1 3.00
7 Shrewsbury Town 1 1 0 0 4 2 2.00
8 Crystal Palace 1 1 0 0 2 1 2.00
9 Southend United 1 1 0 0 2 1 2.00
10 Port Vale 2 1 0 1 6 4 1.50
11 Peterborough United 1 1 0 0 3 2 1.50
12 Queens Park Rangers 2 1 0 1 6 6 1.00
13 Barnsley 2 1 0 1 3 3 1.00
14 Coventry City 2 1 0 1 2 5 0.40
15 Northampton Town 1 0 1 0 0 0
16 Watford 1 0 1 0 0 0
17 Bradford Park Avenue 1 0 0 1 1 2 0.50
18 Torquay United 1 0 0 1 1 2 0.50
19 Swindon Town 2 0 0 2 2 5 0.40
20 Hull City 2 0 0 2 2 7 0.29
21 Bristol City 1 0 0 1 0 1 0.00
22 Lincoln City 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.00
23 Brentford 1 0 0 1 0 3 0.00
24 Newport County 2 0 0 2 0 4 0.00

Key: Promotion Relegation