Alf Jones (footballer, born 1937)

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Alf Jones
Personal information
Full name Alfred Jones [1]
Date of birth(1937-03-02)2 March 1937 [1]
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) [2]
Position(s) Full back
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
19??–1960 Marine
1960–1962 Leeds United 25 (0)
1962–1967 Lincoln City 180 (3)
1967–1968 Wigan Athletic 28 (0)
1968–19?? Horwich RMI
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alfred Jones (born 2 March 1937) is an English former professional footballer who made 205 appearances in the Football League playing for Leeds United and Lincoln City. He played as a full back. [3]

Life and career

Jones was born in Liverpool. [1] He played football as an amateur with Lancashire Combination club Marine until signing for Football League Second Division club Leeds United in 1960, initially as an amateur while completing his national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Jones made 24 appearances in league and cups in his first season, but in the face of stiff competition at full-back the following year, he only played five games, and joined Lincoln City, newly relegated to the Fourth Division, in June 1962 for a £4,000 fee. [2] [4]

He was a regular in the starting eleven for five years, making exactly 200 appearances in senior competitions. He left the club in 1967, [1] and moved back to Lancashire, where he worked in a car factory and played non-league football for Wigan Athletic, where he made 28 league appearances without scoring, [5] and Horwich RMI. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Alf Jones". The Lincoln City FC Archive. Lincoln City F.C. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jones: Alfred (Alf)". Leeds United F.C. History. Tony Hill. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Alf Jones". UK A-Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Leeds United Players Details: No.280: Jones: Alfred (Alf)". Leeds United F.C. History. Tony Hill. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  5. ↑ Hayes, Dean (1996). The Latics: The Official History of Wigan Athletic F.C. Harefield: Yore Publications. ISBN   1-874427-91-7.


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