Tuesday, December 27 – 1910
About six o’clock on Tuesday morning a lad turning out with milk supply at Llandudno discovered the dead body of Mr. Fred G. Jones in Caroline street. It appeared to be lying, face downwards, just where Mr. Jones is supposed to have fallen.
Mr. Jones, who suffered from heart weakness, was formerly a well-known footballer. He was a native of Llandudno. He began to play football at the age of 16, and subsequently he joined the Llandudno Swifts, then the “greyhounds” of the northern part of Wales in amateur football.
He played afterwards with several English teams, and after playing for Reading in the Southern League for a season he returned to Llandudno, and threw in his lot with the Swifts once more.
For one season he assisted Carnarvon, and it was largely due to his splendid play that the Carnarvon club that season became the champions of the Welsh Coast League and met Wrexham in the semi-final of the Coast Cup.
In more recent years he has been connected with the Wednesday football movements. Mr Jones, while at Small Heath, played for Wales against Scotland at Wrexham.
He retired a year ago from active participation in the game, and a testimonial for him had been promoted in the last few weeks among local footballers, and was to have been presented to him this week.
(North Wales Express, 30-12-1910)
** Fred Jones was the goalkeeper for Lincoln City on the first ever Football League match for Liverpool at Anfield on September 9 – 1893.
** Fred Jones also played for Burslem Port Vale, Newton Heath and West Manchester.
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