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.
SEASON P W D L TRY CON PEN DG PTS
1955-1956 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1956-1957 6 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1957-1958 39 27 6 6 1 0 0 0 3
1958-1959 35 17 5 13 0 0 0 0 0
1959-1960 37 21 7 9 1 0 0 0 3
1960-1961 26 20 2 4 2 0 0 0 6
1961-1962 25 17 3 5 4 0 0 0 12
1962-1963 10 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
1963-1964 7 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 190 121 26 43 8 0 0 0 24
TEAM P W D L PF PA PTS
Ebbw Vale 8 7 0 1 279 120 42
Llandovery 9 7 0 2 297 249 39
Carmarthen Quins 9 6 0 3 203 203 29
Cardiff 8 4 0 4 246 227 27
Swansea 9 4 1 4 215 239 25
Newport 9 4 0 5 222 212 24
Aberavon 9 4 0 5 239 293 21
RGC 1404 9 2 0 7 276 304 18
Bridgend Ravens 9 2 1 6 226 322 17
Pontypool 9 3 0 6 186 220 16