Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Benjamin Lewis Jones
- Born
- Saturday, 11th April, 1931
- Current Age
- 93 years and 60 days
- Place Of Birth
- Gorseinon, Swansea, Wales
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- European Championship
- 1955/1956
- Test Series
- New Zealand vs Great Britain 1954, Great Britain vs New Zealand 1955
- English Hall Of Fame
- 2013
Playing Career Statistics
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Competitions | |||||||||||||||
| Competition | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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| The Ashes | - | 3 | - | 15 | - | 60 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
| World Cup | - | 3 | 1 | 10 | - | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
| Tour Matches | Great Britain | - | 24 | 9 | 137 | - | 301 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 66.67% | List | |||
| Test Series | 2 | 9 | 1 | 35 | - | 43 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.56% | List | ||||
| European Championship | 1 | 3 | 1 | 14 | - | 31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.67% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Wales | 1953, 1963 | 2 | - | 5 | - | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Great Britain | 1954-55, 1957 | 17 | 5 | 71 | - | 157 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 52.94% | List | ||||
| Other | 1955 | 2 | 1 | 9 | - | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1953-1963 | 21 | 6 | 85 | 0 | 188 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 52.38% | List | ||||
International Matches - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Great Britain | 1954-1957 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Rest Of The World | 1957 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1957 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
World Cup Matches - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Great Britain | 1954-1957 | 3 | 1 | 10 | - | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Andrew Ferguson, Shawn Dollin, Paul Carter
Your Say
05/06/2012
The latter part of Lewis Jones' playing career was spent in the Sydney Second Division as player-coach for the highly-successful Wentworthville Magpies in the 1960s.
The Welsh centre/fullback, who also represented Wales at Rugby Union, was a prolific goalkicker
both in Britain and Australia.
03/04/2016
The great Ken Thornett has always and continues to nominate Lewis Jones as the best player he has ever seen. He got to see him close up when they were teammates at Leeds. I was lucky enough as a boy growing up in Sydney to witness his skills at the end of his career at Wenty. His leadership on and off the field was exemplary.
26/12/2018
Elected to the Leeds Rugby League Hall of Fame.
Still thought to be the best Welsh Rugby Union capture by Leeds.
10/10/2019
Does anyone know what his win/loss record was at Wentworthville ?
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