Morris Jones

William Morris Jones (30 November 1919 – 1993) was an English footballer. A centre-forward, he scored 84 goals in 191 league games in a 13-year career in the Football League.

Jones moved from South Liverpool to Port Vale in June 1939 but had to wait seven years to make his debut because of World War II. He was sold to Swindon Town for £2,500 in November 1947. He moved on to Crystal Palace three years before ending his career after spending the 1951–52 season with Watford. He was listed in the September 2002 book Swindon Town Football Club 100 Greats.

Career Jones performed well for South Liverpool in the Lancashire Combination in 1938–39, ousting the more experienced Jack Roscoe from the starting line-up. However, Jones found himself on the sidelines as South Liverpool won four trophies, including the Welsh Cup, in the spring of 1939. He signed with Port Vale in June 1939. Due to the Second World War it took until 31 August 1946, in a match against Brighton & Hove Albion, before he made his debut; in the interim he had guested four times (three times in the league) for Celtic in 1940. He scored his first Third Division South goal on 7 September, in a 2–1 defeat by Exeter City at the Old Recreation Ground. He then hit 25 goals in 43 appearances to help the club to rise to fourth place in 1948–49. Haydn Green's "Hornets" finished three places above the bottom of the Third Division South at the end of the 1951–52 campaign. Despite scoring seven goals in 27 league games for a struggling team, Jones did not find another club after leaving Vicarage Road, though he did have a trial with Leyton Orient.

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