Player

Kingsley Jones - Prop

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Kingsley Jones
Height185
Weight95
Date Of Birth05/08/1935
Place Of BirthPontypridd
EducationLlandovery College
ClubsCardiff
HonoursWales, British and Irish Lions
InvitationalCrawshays, Barbarians
ManagedTonga
Kingsley Daniel Jones was certainly a tight head prop of the modern age. Standing over 6ft tall and weighing nearly 17st, like many others of his generation he was converted from the second row, where he played in 1957 when Cardiff beat the Wallabies, to become a top-class scrummager. Educated at Llandovery College, Kingsley was a wholesale fruit merchant and one of his hobbies was golf. Kingsley played 190 games for the club between 1955 and 1964,scoring eight tries.
He gained ten Welsh caps, Making his international debut against  South Africa in 1960 he won ten Welsh caps and went on tour with the 1962 British and Irish Lions, playing in 15 matches in South Africa including four tests, as well as representing the Barbarians against East Midlands in 1962 - 63 Mobbs Memorial Match.
COMPETITION PLAYED T C P DG PTS YC RC
1963 New Zealand Tour of UK, France & Canada 1 + 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1960-1961 South Africa Tour of UK & France 1 + 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1957 Australia Tour of UK & France 1 + 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TEAM P W D L PF PA PTS
Newport 24 21 0 3 845 446 104
Llandovery 22 20 0 2 717 355 95
Ebbw Vale 23 17 0 6 708 433 85
Cardiff 24 15 1 8 731 536 78
Pontypridd 24 12 1 11 544 572 63
Pontypool 21 13 0 8 549 485 61
Merthyr 21 11 0 10 535 569 56
Aberavon 23 8 0 15 507 652 47
Bridgend Ravens 22 8 0 14 463 667 42
Swansea 21 6 0 15 427 589 36
Carmarthen Quins 22 5 0 17 469 666 33
RGC 1404 21 5 0 16 424 579 30
Neath 22 3 0 19 379 749 20