Bernie Jones (3 May 1953 – 20 June 2022) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played for
Hawthorn and
Essendon Essendon may refer to:
Australia
*Essendon, Victoria
**Essendon railway station
**Essendon Airport
*Essendon Football Club, in the Australian Football League
*Electoral district of Essendon
*Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington
United Kin ...
in the
VFL during the 1970s.
A
ruckman, Jones played in two Grand Finals in his first stint with Hawthorn, the first in 1975 which they lost and the other the following season which they won. In 1978 he crossed to Essendon for the season before returning to Hawthorn where he played until his retirement in 1980.
Jones's son, Dylan, played for the
Sandringham Football Club
The Sandringham Football Club, nicknamed the Zebras, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Sandringham, Victoria, Sandringham. It currently competes in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the VFL Women's (VF ...
in the Victorian Football League in 2010.
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1953 births
2022 deaths
Hawthorn Football Club players
Hawthorn Football Club premiership players
Essendon Football Club players
De La Salle OC Amateur Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
VFL/AFL premiership players
20th-century Australian sportsmen