GRECIANS PLUCKY FIGHT AT SWINDON

Swindon Town 2-1 ECFC

Good Friday, April 2nd 1926.

Exeter City's visit to Swindon on Good Friday resulted in a defeat for the Devon club by the narrow margin of two goals to one. Davies scored for the Railwaymen in the opening half, and Denyer increased their lead just after the change of ends. Compton replied for the City later on. There were 9,000 spectators.

Swindon Town.
Nash 
Dickinson Weston
Cooper Bew Adey
Denyer Wall Clark Petrie Davies

Referee: Mr E.E.Small, of Bristol.

Compton Myers Lievesley Kirk Newman
Potter Pollard Pullan
Charlton Lowton
Bailey
Exeter City.

The Grecians opened very briskly, and the strong play of the backs and halves kept the forwards in a good position, but with Dickinson and Weston defending superbly the City could find no way of getting to the Swindon goal-net. After a time the Railwaymen asserted themselves and Davies obtained a clever goal, his shot being accidentally diverted into the Exeter net by Lowton. Pollard fell back to assist in repulsing the Swindon forwards, who were always threatening, and amongst whom Denyer was repeatedly prominent, his smart ball control and perfect centreing causing a lot of anxiety to the Grecians. Two minutes after the interval Denyer beat man after man and scored a brilliant goal. Exeter rallied gamely and made many great-hearted attempts to turn the game around, Compton at length succeeding, in a magnificent individual effort, in getting the ball past Nash. The City could do no more, however, and in the closing play the Swindon eleven were the stronger, although the Exeter forwards, who were well led by Lievesley, were sometimes dangerous in sudden swift raids.
Result:
Swindon Town 2 Exeter City 1.

Southern League
Exeter City v Swindon Town 

In the Southern League game at St James's Park the reserve teams of Exeter City and Swindon Town shared the points with neither side being able to break down their opposing defences. There were three thousand spectators.
As Swindon fielded only ten men they can lay claim to a creditable achievement. Brewer, an amateur, was to have been picked up on the way, at Chippenham to be precise, but the train did not stop there.

EXETER CITY RESERVES. Pavey; Hawkins and Flynn; Garratt, McDevitt, and Shelton; Bolam, Milsom, Blackmore, Casson, and Kelland.

SWINDON TOWN RESERVES. Randall; O'Neill, and Brewer (absent); Rogers, Waite, and Cole; Ing, Purcell, Ruddlesdin, Johnson, and Thompson.

Very early in the game first Swindon and then Exeter got the ball as nearly over the goal-line as was possible, and all the spectators shouted themselves hoarse, but the referee, who was also in a good position each time to see exactly what was happening, waved play on. As it proved, there was nothing else in the game quite so much like a score. Randall distinguished himself by keeping out some excellent shots by Bolam, and Exeter enjoyed a decided territorial advantage, but they had no forward as dangerous as Ruddlesdin, who caused a number of exciting diversions, and the Swindon defence rarely looked as if it was going to be beaten. McDevitt was brilliant at centre half for Exeter, and Flynn showed splendid skill and strength at left-back.
Exeter City Reserves 0
Swindon Town Reserves 0.