Career
Jones had a brief career in rugby union with hometown club Rhymney Reconstruction Finance Corporation in the South Wales Valleys, but it was in athletics that he looked set to excel until switching to rugby league. He had been touted as a potential Olympian for 1968 when he was invited to try out for Wakefield Trinity in 1964. Rugby League Playing under the ironic alias "A. Walker", he impressed for Wakefield in reserve team games against Huddersfield and Doncaster and soon took to the sport.
Within nine months he was playing for Great Britain and scored on his international début against France in Perpignan.
Berwyn Jones represented Commonwealth XIII while at Wakefield Trinity in 1965 against New Zealand at Crystal Palace National Recreation Centre, London on Wednesday 18 August 1965, and was selected for the 1966 tour of Australia and New Zealand but did not make the Test team due to the form of Barrow"s William "Bill" Burgess and Geoffrey "Geoff" Wriglesworth of Leeds. Berwyn Jones played Right-wing, id est (that is) number 2, and scored 2-tries in Wakefield Trinity"s 18-2 victory over Leeds in the 1964 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1964-1965 season at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield on Saturday 31 October 1964.
He moved to Bradford in 1967/68 for £3000, where he was joined by Leeds" Geoff Wrigglesworth. The pair formed a potent right wing/centre partnership.
Jones scored 26 tries that season, his best haul.
He moved on again to Street Helens in 1969 but scored just two tries before announcing a premature retirement. He died in January 2007 after a battle with motor neurone disease.
