John "Jack" "Bedwellty" Jones born in Bedwellty, was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league football player of the 1910s, playing representative level rugby union for Wales, and at club level for Abertillery Reconstruction Finance Corporation, as a Prop, id est (that is) number 1 or 3, and playing club level rugby league for Oldham.
Career
Both matches were reported as very abrasive contests. Just two weeks after his final rugby union international for Wales, in which he scored his only international points, a try against Ireland, he turned professional when he joined rugby league team Oldham. He made his début for Oldham against Saint Helens on 4 April 1914, and scored three tries in the match.
Membership
Jones, a collier by trade, was a member of the "Terrible Eight", the nickname the Wales pack was given by the press in the games against Scotland and Ireland in 1914.
