Joe Jones (footballer)

{{short description|Welsh footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Joe Jones

| image =

| fullname = Joseph Thomas Jones

| birth_date = 9 January 1887

| birth_place = Rhosymedre, Wales

| death_date = {{death date and age|1941|7|23|1887|1|9|df=y}}

| death_place = Stoke-on-Trent, England

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=11}}{{cite news |title=The lure of promotion. Coventry City |newspaper=Athletic News |location=Manchester |date=13 August 1923 |page=6}}

| position = Half-back/Defender

| years1 = | clubs1 = Cefn Albion | caps1 = | goals1 =

| years2 = – | clubs2 = Wrexham | caps2 = | goals2 =

| years3 = – | clubs3 = Treharris | caps3 = | goals3 =

| years4 = 1911–1920 | clubs4 = Stoke | caps4 = 123 | goals4 = 12

| years5 = 1920–1921 | clubs5 = Crystal Palace | caps5 = 61 | goals5 = 6

| years6 = 1922–1923 | clubs6 = Coventry City | caps6 = 50 | goals6 = 1

| years7 = 1924 | clubs7 = Crewe Alexandra | caps7 = 15 | goals7 = 1

| years8 = 1925 | clubs8 = Wellington St George's | caps8 = | goals8 =

| totalcaps = 249 | totalgoals = 20

| nationalyears1 = 1920–1923 |nationalteam1 = Wales |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.{{cite book|last=Matthews|first=Tony|title=The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City|year=1994|publisher=Lion Press|isbn=0-9524151-0-0}}

Career

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. 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. 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. 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.{{cite book|last1 =Purkiss|first1 =Mike|last2 =Sands|first2 =Nigel|title=Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–1989|publisher =The Breedon Books Publishing Company|page=78|date=1989|ISBN=0907969542}} After a further 36 appearances ( two goals) the next season, he moved on to Coventry City in July 1922{{cite book|last1 =Purkiss|first1 =Mike|last2 =Sands|first2 =Nigel|title=Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–1989|publisher =The Breedon Books Publishing Company|page=330|date=1989|ISBN=0907969542}} and subsequently to Crewe Alexandra.

After heading a ball Jones lost his sight in one eye causing him to retire. He later ran a snooker hall and a bookshop for the blind before his death in 1941.

Career statistics

=Club=

Source:{{ENFA}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
rowspan="2"|Club

!rowspan="2"|Season

!colspan="3"|League

!colspan="2"|FA Cup

!colspan="2"|Total

DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
rowspan="6"|Stoke

|1911–12

|Southern League Division One

|31

210322
1912–13

|Southern League Division One

|30

020320
1913–14

|Southern League Division Two

|23

400234
1914–15

|Southern League Division Two

|24

330273
1919–20

|Second Division

|15

300153
colspan="2"|Total

!123

126012912
rowspan="3"|Crystal Palace

|1920–21

|Third Division South

|25

420274
1921–22

|Second Division

|36

230392
colspan="2"|Total

!61

650666
rowspan="3"|Coventry City

|1922–23

|Second Division

|36

110371
1923–24

|Second Division

|14

020160
colspan="2"|Total

!50

130531
Crewe Alexandra

|1923–24

|Third Division North

|15

110161
colspan="3"|Career Total

!249

2015026420

=International=

Source:{{NFT player |id=49192 |name=Jones, Joe}}

class=wikitable style="text-align: center"
National teamYearAppsGoals
rowspan=6|Wales

|1912

30
191320
191420
192030
192120
192230
colspan=2|Total150

References