Good Friday March 30th 1956 
JOHN IS CITY HERO IN NEWPORT VICTORY.

Newport County 1 (HARRIS)
Exeter City  2 (BUCKLE, JOHN).

Half-time Newport 1 Exeter City 0. 

At Somerton Park, Newport,

Attendance 5,976,

Exeter City gained an unexpected but thoroughly deserved victory over Newport County. Their hero was right half John who was injured in the 30th minute, He had to leave the field to have a stitch inserted in a severe gash over his right eye and when he returned he played in attack, he was however, far from being a passenger, on the contrary John became Exeter's most dangerous forward, worrying the life out of the Newport defence and appropriately he got Exeter's winning goal in the 74th minute,

Exeter had surrendered a goal to Harris in the 15th minute and for the remainder of the first half they did not seem likely to win both points. In the second half it was a different story. Prompted by John, the Exeter forwards overran the Newport defenders and it was no surprise when Buckle outwitted the Newport fullback Lever to go on and equalise. Sword was a live wire centre forward and outstanding in defence vere Davey who blotted out centre forward Beech with Mitchell and Doyle who gave little scope to the Newport wingers.

Newport:- Weare; Lever, Hollyman; Tennant, Wilcox, Docherty; Hudson, Burgess, Beech, Harris, Brown.

Exeter City:- Hunter; Doyle, Mitchell; John, Davey, Porteous; K. Thomas, Iggleden, Sword, Willis, Buckle.

Southern League 
Exeter City Res. v Worcester City 

At St James's Park Exeter City Reserves beat Worcester City by 3 goals to nil.

RESERVES WIN SCRAPPY GAME

In a scrappy close-passing game that never worked up to top speed, Exeter City Reserves beat Worcester City 3-0 in a Southern League game at St. James's Park yesterday afternoon,
writes J. P. Donaldson. (Express and Echo) 

There was not a great deal between the teams, although City had a stronger defence, with Lobbett play- ing a cool, steady game.

Exeter took the lead in the 11th minute when Houghton, at centre-forward, was brought down by two defenders and Murphy scored from the penalty kick. A few minutes later a long pass by Worthington to Houghton almost beat Jeynes, the Worcester goalkeeper. He ran out to catch the ball but misjudged the bounce and was lucky to see it pass just wide of the post. Worcester were unlucky not to be level at half-time when Dunn headed on to the crossbar and centre-forward McCaffery headed the rebound back again only to see Walton clear on the line. Although Jeynes got his fingers to the ball, Whiteside scored the second with a hard, low drive in the 50th minute from a clever Murphy move, and Houghton scored the third four minutes from time when he ran on to an overhead kick from Ellaway in the Worcester goalmouth.

Exeter City Reserves 3.

Lobbett; Walton, Marsh; Packer, Harvey, Murphy; Simpson, Worthington,
Houghton Ellaway, Whiteside.

Worcester 0

Scorers
Exeter City
Murphy, Houghton, Whiteside

Attendance 2,562
Receipts £132.8s