James "Jimmy" Jones was a football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

er who played as a defender

Defender (football)

Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....

 in The Football League

The Football League

The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...

 in the 1910s and 1920s.

Born in Newburn-on-Tyne

Newburn

Newburn is a semi rural village, parish, electoral ward and former urban district in western Tyne and Wear, North East England. Situated on the banks of the River Tyne, it is built rising up the valley from the river...

, Jones began his career with local side Gateshead

Gateshead F.C.

Gateshead Football Club are a professional Association football club, based in Gateshead, England. They currently play in the Conference National, the fifth level of the English football league system.Ian Bogie is the current manager....

. In 1912, he signed for Blackpool

Blackpool F.C.

Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...

, then in Division Two

Football League Second Division

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. He made his debut on September 28, 1912, in a 2–0 victory over Fulham

Fulham F.C.

Fulham Football Club is a professional English Premier League club based in southwest London Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they play in the Premier League, their 11th current season...

 at Bloomfield Road

Bloomfield Road

Bloomfield Road is an all-seater football stadium in the English town of Blackpool, Lancashire. It has been the permanent home of Blackpool F.C. since 1901 and is named after the road on which the stadium's main entrance used to stand. The stadium has been in a process of redevelopment since 2000...

. He went on to make a further 31 league appearances during the 1912–13

Blackpool F.C. season 1912-13

The 1912-13 season was Blackpool F.C.s sixteenth season in the Football League. They competed in the twenty-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing bottom...

 campaign.

Jones was an ever-present during the 1913–14

Blackpool F.C. season 1913-14

The 1913-14 season was Blackpool F.C.s seventeenth season in the Football League. They competed in the twenty-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing sixteenth....

 season, only to see his place come under pressure from Bert Tulloch

Bert Tulloch

Albert "Bert" Tulloch was an English professional footballer. He played as a full-back, and spent his entire ten-year professional career at Blackpool....

 in 1914–15

Blackpool F.C. season 1914-15

The 1914-15 season was Blackpool F.C.s eighteenth season in the Football League. They competed in the twenty-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing tenth....

.

After four seasons of inter-war football, Jones split starting appearances in the left-back position with Horace Fairhurst

Horace Fairhurst

Horace Fairhurst was an English professional football player. He played as a defender.After playing for Darwen for a number of years, Fairhurst joined fellow Lancashire club Blackpool in May 1919 after previously playing for them during the 1916-17 and 1917-18 World War I wartime...

 in 1919–20

Blackpool F.C. season 1919-20

The 1919-20 season was Blackpool F.C.s nineteenth season in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing fourth....

. Jones left Blackpool at the end of the season, but Fairhurst died during the following campaign, 1920–21

Blackpool F.C. season 1920-21

The 1920-21 season was Blackpool F.C.s twentieth season in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing fourth....

, from a head injury suffered during a game.

Jones joined Bolton Wanderers

Bolton Wanderers F.C.

Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the area of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. They began their current spell in the Premier League in 2001....

 in the summer of 1920, and went on to make 70 league appearances for the Trotters in his two years with the club.

Jones finished his career with New Brighton

New Brighton A.F.C.

-Revived club:New Brighton A.F.C. were reborn in 1993, and joined the Birkenhead and Wirral League, which they won in their first season. In 1995 the club switched to the South Wirral League. After upgrading their new ground, the club were admitted to the Second Division of the West Cheshire League...

 in 1927, after five years with the Merseyside

Merseyside

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club.