:Ron Jones (rugby union)

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| name = Ron Jones

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| full_name = Ronald Elvet Jones

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|02|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Neath, Wales

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| occupation = Teacher

| school = Neath Grammar School

| university = St Luke's College, Exeter

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| position = Flanker / No. 8

| repyears1 = 1967–68

| repteam1 = {{nrut|Wales}}

| repcaps1 = 5

| reppoints1 = 0

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Ronald Elvet Jones (born 24 February 1943) was a Welsh international rugby union player.

Born in Neath, Jones attended Neath Grammar School and was a Welsh Secondary Schools representative player.{{cite web |title=Neath GS was hard as nails rugby melting pot |url=https://www.therugbypaper.co.uk/features/343849/neath-gs-was-hard-as-nails-rugby-melting-pot/ |website=The Rugby Paper |date=30 October 2021}}

A back-row forward, Jones was rugby captain at St Luke's College, Exeter. He appeared for Devon during his time in Exeter and also played some his early rugby at Swansea, with which he faced the touring 1963–64 All Blacks as a 20-year old. Based in England, Jones taught physical education at Bablake School and was a Coventry player at the time of his Wales call up. He won five caps across their 1967 and 1968 Five Nations Championship campaigns.{{cite news |title=The New Skipper |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/790584022 |work=Coventry Standard |date=27 June 1968}}

Jones was later deputy head of Bablake School.{{cite news |title=Teachers share 112 years in class |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/teachers-share-112-years-class-3163278 |work=Coventry Live |date=18 June 2003 |language=en}}