Owen Jones (footballer)

Owen Jones

Personal information
Full name	John Owen Jones
Date of birth	July 1871
Place of birth	Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
Date of death	23 September 1955 (age 84)
Place of death	Crewe, England
Playing position	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
?–1894	Bangor	?	(?)
1894–1897	Crewe Alexandra	?	(?)
1897–1898	Chorley	?	(?)
1898–1899	Newton Heath	2	(0)
1899–1901	Bangor	?	(?)
1901	Earlestown	?	(?)
1901–?	Stalybridge Rovers	?	(?)
National team
1901	Wales	2	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

John Owen "Chorley" Jones (July 1871^[1] – 23 September 1955) was a Welsh footballer who played as a forward for several clubs in Wales and England, including Bangor City, Crewe Alexandra and Newton Heath.^[1]

Career

Club career

Born in Bangor, Gwynedd,^[1] Jones began his football career with Bangor F.C., before joining Football League Second Division side Crewe Alexandra in October 1894. After three years with Crewe, Jones transferred to Chorley, the 1896–97 Lancashire League champions, in September 1897. After Chorley could only manage a fifth-place finish in the Lancashire League in 1898, Jones signed for Newton Heath of the Football League Second Division.^[1]

Jones made his Newton Heath debut in the first fixture of the 1898–99 season, playing in the centre forward position in a 2–0 away win over Gainsborough Trinity on 3 September 1898.^[1] However, he only made one more appearance for the Heathens, a 5–1 away defeat to Burton Swifts on 1 October 1898, before being suspended by the club for "not obeying orders". By 1899, he had transferred back to Bangor, where he remained for the next two seasons, before transferring to Stalybridge Rovers, via a brief stint with Earlestown.

International career

During his second spell with Bangor, Jones received his first call-up to the Welsh national team. Selected in the Welsh squad for the 1901 British Home Championship, Jones made his Wales debut on 2 March 1901, playing at inside right in a 1–1 draw with Scotland in Wrexham. He was dropped for the following game against England on 18 March, to allow Pugh to move to inside right and Billy Meredith could take up his usual position at outside right.

Jones returned to the Wales team for the game against Ireland on 23 March at Pugh's expense, lining up alongside Meredith on the right side of the forward line. Jones ended up scoring the winning goal for Wales, as the match finished 1–0 to the away side.^[2] The result meant that Wales finished in third place in the 1901 Home Championship, ahead of Ireland.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Stats at mufcinfo.com
2. ^ Davies, Gareth (1995). Robinson, Michael. ed. Soccer: The International Line-ups & Statistics Series – Wales 1876-1960. Cleethorpes: Soccer Book Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 0-947808-66-3. 

External links

• Profile at StretfordEnd.co.uk

Persondata
Name	Jones, Owen
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Short description
Date of birth	1871
Place of birth	Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
Date of death	23 September 1955
Place of death	Crewe, England