Ken Jones RIP (1926-2015)

The Association has the sad news to report that we lost another of our veteran Bantams players in the week leading up to Legends Day 2015 following on from that of Steve Mokone in the USA. Former Coventry City full back and long time CCFPA member R.K.’Ken’ Jones passed away last week. He would have been 89 in April. Though their CCFC careers overlapped briefly they sadly never played in the first team together!

Ken was a Welshman born in Llanelli and in October 1949 he was brought from his home town club Llanelli Town (where he started playing as a youngster during WW2) to Highfield Road by legendary City manager Harry Storer  for what was a record transfer fee for the Welsh League at the time. He made his Division 2 debut at Barnsley in September 1951 and his last appearance for us was in a home defeat against Torquay United in April 1956. In all, Ken played for the Bantams in 83 League games and 5 F.A.Cup ties (without ever troubling the score-sheet) before moving locally to Lockheed Leamington in close season 1956 on a free transfer.

Ken hung up his boots in 1958 and continued to live locally until his death. He was able to attend our very first Legends Day in 2007.  CCFPA sends sincere condolences to all Ken’s family and friends and will communicate funeral details when we hear of them. A more substantial appreciation of Ken’s career by CCFPA chairman and CCFC official club historian Jim Brown will appear on this site in due course.