 When he was twelve, he was selected for the Swansea Schoolboys team, which he captained in 1950 and won the Welsh Shield and English Schools Trophy.Jones was signed to Billy McCandless' Swansea Town in 1952 when he was 17, joining his brother Bryn who also played for the club.For a time at Swansea he also worked as an apprentice sheet metal worker in The Prince of Wales Dry Dock.