Tranmere Rovers 4
Wrexham 2
League (Division Three North)


Tranmere R. 

4 - 2
HT: 3-2

Wrexham


League
(Division Three North)
Saturday, January 31st, 1953
Prenton Park
Attendance: 5,600
3:00pm kick-off


Goalscorers
Cyril Done (7)
Cyril Done (pen.) (12)
Les Speed (o.g.) (40)
Cyril Done (70)
Bill Heggie (1)
Ron Hewitt (6)

Team Managers
Ernie Blackburn Peter Jackson

Starting Eleven
1. George Payne
2. Bill Lamont
3. Percy Steele
4. Tommy Mycock
5. Harold Bell
6. Ray Williams
7. Ray Davies
8. Kenny McDevitt
9. Vince Dillon
10. Cyril Done
11. Lloyd Iceton
Bob Connor .1
Les Speed .2
Peter Fisher .3
George Jones .4
Tommy Bannan .5
Johnny Tapscott .6
Stewart McCallum .7
Ron Hewitt .8
Bill Heggie .9
Tommy Tilston .10
Glyn Hughes .11

Bench
None. None.

Substitutions
None. None.

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.

Match Officials

A. Wilkinson (Bradford) (Referee)



Match Report


This match has no report.



Squad Statistics (as at January 31st, 1953)


1952-53 All Time
League Cups All
Bob Connor (GK) 17 - 3 - 67 -
Peter Fisher 20 - 1 - 58 -
Les Speed 15 - 411851
George Jones 2424 - 855
Johnny Tapscott 2914 - 842
Stewart McCallum 4 - 0 - 76 -
Tommy Bannan 2812447931
Bill Heggie 320 - 32
Ron Hewitt 2794 - 7524
Glyn Hughes 29742339
Tommy Tilston 2612424016







League Table & Results (as at January 31st, 1953)


Other Wrexham matches played on January 31st, 1953:
Welsh National League (Wrexham Area) Division Two
Chirk AAA Reserves3-1Wrexham 'A'
Cheshire County League
Mossley0-0Wrexham Reserves

Results of league matches played since last match
31st January 1953
Accrington S.2-2Mansfield Town
Barrow1-0York City
Bradford PA0-1Chesterfield
Chester0-2Grimsby Town
Darlington3-0Hartlepools United
Rochdale1-2Carlisle United
Scunthorpe & Lyndsey Utd1-2Port Vale
Southport3-0Bradford City
Stockport Co.2-4Crewe Alex.
Tranmere R.4-2Wrexham
Workington1-1Oldham


Division Three (North) 1952-53
P W D L Avg Pts
1. Oldham Athletic 29 17 8 4 2.333 42
2. Grimsby Town 30 16 8 6 1.774 40
3. Port Vale 28 13 10 5 1.773 36
4. York City 29 13 9 7 1.407 35
5. WREXHAM 29 15 4 10 1.188 34
6. Crewe Alexandra 30 14 5 11 1.159 33
7. Gateshead AFC 29 11 10 8 1.263 32
8. Chesterfield 30 12 8 10 1.128 32
9. Hartlepools United 30 11 10 9 0.921 32
10. Carlisle United 30 11 9 10 1.378 31
11. Barrow 30 12 7 11 0.953 31
12. Scunthorpe & Lyndsey Utd 29 11 8 10 1.189 30
13. Halifax Town 28 10 10 8 1.132 30
14. Southport 29 12 6 11 0.930 30
15. Tranmere Rovers 29 12 5 12 1.083 29
16. Bradford (Park Avenue) 29 11 6 12 0.952 28
17. Mansfield Town 29 10 8 11 0.773 28
18. Stockport County 30 9 9 12 1.075 27
19. Bradford City 30 6 13 11 0.667 25
20. Darlington 30 10 3 17 0.667 23
21. Chester 28 6 9 13 0.804 21
22. Workington 29 6 7 16 0.492 19
23. Rochdale 30 7 4 19 0.684 18
24. Accrington Stanley 28 4 8 16 0.491 16