RESULTS OF FOOTBALL IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28258, 22 April 1957, Page 14

RESULTS OF FOOTBALL IN BRITAIN

(N.Z. Press Assot (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. Results of Association football matches played in Britain today were:— League I.—Arsenal 3, Charlton Athletic 1, Birmingham City 6, Leeds United 2; Burnley 0, Manchester City 3; Cardiff City 0, Tottenham Hotspur 3; Chelsea 5, Everton 1; Manchester United 4, Sunderland 0; Newcastle United 1. Aston Villa 2; Portsmouth 1, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0; Preston North End 0, Blackpool 0; Sheffield Wednesday 3, Luton Town 0; West Bromwich Albion 3, Bolton Wanderers 2. League 2.—Bristol Rovers 0, Blackburn Rovers 1; Bury 1, Lincoln City 0; Doncasters Rovers 4, Port Vale 0; Grimsby Town 3, Rotherham United 2; Huddersfield Town 2, Swansea Town 2; Leicester City 1, Bristol City 1; Leyton Orient 0, Fulham 2; Liverpool 3, Nottingham Forest 1; Middlesbrough 3, Sheffield United 1; Notts County 4, West Ham United 1; Stoke City 3, Barnsley 0. League 3, Northern.—Accrington Stanley 2, Workington 1; Bradford City 1, Darlington 2; Harlepools United 2, Bradford 1; Mansfield Town 2, Crewe Alexandra 1; Oldham Athletic 1, Scunthorpe United 1; Southport 3, Derby County 2; Stockport County 2, Barrow 1; Tranmere Rovers 0, Halifax Town 2; York City 4, Rochdale 0. League 3, Southern.—Aidershot 2, Crystal Palace 1; Bournemouth 2, Reading 1; Brentford 3, Exeter City 0; Brighton and Hove 3, Norwich City 0: Gillingham 1, Coventry City 2; Ipswich Town 2, Plymouth Argyle 1; Millwall 3. Colchester United 1; Shrewsbury Town 2, Northampton Town 0: Swindon Town 0, Southampton 0; Torquay United 4. Newport County 0; Walsall 0, Queen’s Park Rangers 2; Watford 1, Southend United 1. Scottish Football Association Cup

nation'—Copyright) final: Falkirk 1, Kilmarnock 1 (at Hampden Park). Scottish League I.—Celtic 3, Airdrieonians 0; Dundee 0, East Fife 1; Hibernian 0, Dunfermline Athletic 0: Motherwell 2, Aberdeen 5; Queen of the South 0, Hearts 2; St. Mirren 1, Partick Thistle 1. Scottish League ll.—Albion Rove r s 3, Dumbarton I,; Cowdenbeath 3, St. Johnstone 2; Forfar Athletic 4, Clyde 1; East Stirling v. Dundee United postponed. Rugby League Barrow 15, Whitehaven 7; Batley 4, Wakefield Trinity 31: Bramley 33, Castleford 12; Featherstone Rovers 17, Leeds 7; Halifax 15, Bradford Northern 18; Hull Kingston Rovers 16, Huddersfield 14; Hunslet 12, Oldham 21; Keighley 4, Hull 14; Leigh 18, York 3; Liverpool City 22, Doncaster 19; Rochdale Hornets 37, Dewsbury 17; Swinton 19, Salford 35; Warrington 40, Wigan 7; Working ton Town 26, St. Helens 3; Blackpool Borough 9, Widnes 7. RUGBY UNION Rosslyn Park 16, Metropolitan Police 0; Aberavon 14, London Welsh 14: Bedford 9, Percy Park 8: Birkenhead Park 26, North of Ireland 3; Bridgwater and Albion 17, Moseley 22; Bristol 11, Leicester 8; Cardiff 0, Barbarians 40; Cheltenham 3, Sale 11; Exeter 8, Old Cranleighans 21; Falmouth 6, St. Mary’s Hospital 18. Gloucester 9, New Brighton 11: Llanelly 6, Northampton 0; Maesteg 20, Devonport Services 8; Manchester 11. London Irish 16; Newport 37. Newbridge 3; Neath 15, Universities Athletic Union 3; Northern 8, Richmond 6: Otley 24, Old Edwardians 5; Plymouth Albion 23, Old Merchant Taylors 6; Pontypool 11, London University 0; St. Ives 18, Cid Paulines 6;

Swansea 16, Harlequins 13; Taunton 17, Paignton 8; Torquay Athletic C, Old Millhillians 12; Glasgow High School Former Pupils 21, Coventry 16; Cambourne 20. St. Thomas’s Hospital 0; Cross Keys 8, Abertillery 9.