Ben Watts-Jones
Welsh football manager
About Ben Watts-Jones
Lived 1885 – 1949 (aged 63–64). Ben Watts-Jones was a British association football player and association football coach.
Benjamin Watts-Jones (7 January 1885 – 3 July 1949) was a Welsh football manager and chairman.
Jones originated from Swansea and was the eldest son of Swansea mayor Ben Jones. For many years he worked as a draper.
At the start of the 1934–35 season, Jones released all but five of the clubs professional players and brought in 17 new players in their place but had little cash to spend and struggled to turn the side around. In 1936 he appointed former Wales international Bill Jennings as a coach and would eventually step down as manager in order for Jennings to take over in 1937. He instead took a place on the board which he held until the outbreak of World War II.
He died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Swansea.
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Welsh football manager (1885–1949)
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Ben Watts-Jones was born in 1885 in Wales.
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Ben Watts-Jones died on 3 July 1949.
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Ben Watts-Jones was an association football player and association football coach.
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