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Les Jones was an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
rugby leagueRugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
player for the St. Helens club in the English Rugby Football League Championship competition. His position of choice was at . Only one player,
Tom van VollenhovenTom van Vollenhoven is a South African former rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 60s....
, has scored more than his 282 tries for the St. Helens club.
Jones travelled with St Helens to Sydney for the unofficial
1976 World Club ChallengeThe inaugural World Club Challenge was actually an unofficial trial of the concept, with 1975 NSWRFL season premiers, Eastern Suburbs playing against 1975–76 Northern Rugby Football League season Challenge Cup winners St. Helens...
match against their champions, Eastern Suburbs Roosters.