Joe Jones | |
Fullname: | Joseph Thomas Jones |
Birth Date: | 9 January 1887 |
Birth Place: | Rhosymedre, Wales |
Death Place: | Stoke-on-Trent, England |
Height: | [1] |
Position: | Half-back/Defender |
Clubs1: | Cefn Albion |
Years2: | – |
Clubs2: | Wrexham |
Years3: | – |
Years4: | 1911–1920 |
Clubs4: | Stoke |
Caps4: | 123 |
Goals4: | 12 |
Years5: | 1920–1921 |
Caps5: | 61 |
Goals5: | 6 |
Years6: | 1922–1923 |
Caps6: | 50 |
Goals6: | 1 |
Years7: | 1924 |
Caps7: | 15 |
Goals7: | 1 |
Years8: | 1925 |
Clubs8: | Wellington St George's |
Totalcaps: | 249 |
Totalgoals: | 20 |
Nationalyears1: | 1920–1923 |
Nationalcaps1: | 15 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Joseph Thomas Jones (9 January 1887 – 23 July 1941) was a Welsh footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke, Crystal Palace, Coventry City and Crewe Alexandra. He also made 15 appearances for the Wales national team.[2]
Jones, who was born in Rhosymedre, Wales, was one of a select band of footballers who appeared for a club before, during and after the First World War.[2] Jones spent ten years with Stoke making almost 130 senior appearances and 133 during the war. Described as a solid uncompromising, yet bustling-type of a defender with a fantastic heading ability who had a great enthusiasm for the game.[2] He became captain for both club and country, and helped Stoke to re-gain their English Football League status in 1914–15 and also finish runners-up of the Lancashire Football section in 1917–18 and 1918–19 before leaving to join Crystal Palace.[2] At Palace he helped the club become champions of the Third Division, in its inaugural season in 1920–21, making 25 appearances and scoring four goals.[3] After a further 36 appearances (two goals) the next season,[3] he moved on to Coventry City in July 1922[4] and subsequently to Crewe Alexandra.[2]
After heading a ball Jones lost his sight in one eye causing him to retire.[2] He later ran a snooker hall and a bookshop for the blind before his death in 1941.[2]
Source:
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Stoke | 1911–12 | Southern League Division One | 31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 2 | |
1912–13 | Southern League Division One | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 0 | ||
1913–14 | Southern League Division Two | 23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 4 | ||
1914–15 | Southern League Division Two | 24 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 3 | ||
1919–20 | Second Division | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | ||
Total | 123 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 129 | 12 | |||
Crystal Palace | 1920–21 | Third Division South | 25 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 4 | |
1921–22 | Second Division | 36 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 39 | 2 | ||
Total | 61 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 66 | 6 | |||
Coventry City | 1922–23 | Second Division | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 1 | |
1923–24 | Second Division | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | ||
Total | 50 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 53 | 1 | |||
Crewe Alexandra | 1923–24 | Third Division North | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 1 | |
Career Total | 249 | 20 | 15 | 0 | 264 | 20 |
Source:
National team | Year | Apps | Goals | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wales | 1912 | 3 | 0 | |
1913 | 2 | 0 | ||
1914 | 2 | 0 | ||
1920 | 3 | 0 | ||
1921 | 2 | 0 | ||
1922 | 3 | 0 | ||
Total | 15 | 0 |