Dubing Jones, a flanker of the Cleveland Brown Championship team in the late 1940s and late 50s, scored six touchdowns in a single match. It was 99 years old.
His former NFL quarterback, his son BERT confirmed death. Jones was considered the oldest surviving player in the National Football League.
In an innovative attack system designed by Brown’s founder and coach Paul Brown, Jones was a double threat. He was an outstanding runner in the right halfback and passed the pass from the back field as a position that Brown introduced to spread the field for the pass by the Future Hall of Quarter Back Auto Graham.
On November 25, 1951, Jones recorded four touchdowns in Scrimmage and two passes in GRAHAM in Browns’ 42-21 Chicago Bears. ‘Ernie is never in the 1929 game. Along with Bears in 1965, Alvin Kamaraman matched them with Gale Saiers and the New Orleans Saints in 2020.
Brown allowed quarterback to “hearing” and allowed to change his play when he saw a vulnerable defensive alignment, but he used the rotary guard as a “messenger.” In the late 1951 BROWNS’s rotten bears, Brown adhered to the procedure.
“Cleveland safely sent a running play with me ahead.” He recalled in the autobiography “PB: The Paul Brown Story” (1979, with Jack Clary). “OTTO left the phone and chose a pass because Dub Jones had already recorded five touchdowns and knew that it was only one time to set up a record. Dubbing scored in the play, and I didn’t say anything about it because the play was successful. ”
Jones ran 116 yards in nine Carries and scored 3 passes with 80 yards in the game, including Graham’s climax 43 yard touch down.
Graham said in an interview a few years later, “It was one of the many disobedience of disobedience to call Paul Brown, but I was really happy to have a person like Dub Jones. “He was a team man who was not bold about the records we won.”
William Augustus Jones was born on December 29, 1924, in the youngest of four brothers in Arcadia and Northern Louisiana. His nickname was derived from the approximate sound of the letter W in his name.
His father died when Dub died when he was three years old, and his mother moved his family to nearby Ruston, where he played in the main championship high school football team. He played at the Louisiana State University in 1942, in Tules in 1943 and 44, and registered for a campus naval program that trained the expected officers for the task of World War II. He played in Naval Football Team in New London, Connecticut, in 1945.
Jones played in Miami Seahawks and Brooklyn Dodgers of All-America Football Conference, founded in 1946 and joined Cleveland Browns, a member team of the league in 1948. When AAFC was disbanded before the 1950 season. The NFL admitted two other teams and the other teams in the league. Browns has won all four AAFC championships.
Jones’s Browns team won the NFL Championship in 1950, 1954 and 1955. He was nominated for the league’s All-Star Game, Pro BOWL, and in 1951, he was selected by Sportswriters as the first team All-Pro. He went back to Pro BOWL. 1952.
6 feet 4 inches and 200 pounds -his tall goals -Jones often moved to flankers before the ball popped out, and Browns’s end of the star, Dante Laveli and Mac Speedie line on the other side. The side of the attack line gave Graham three goals. Browns also introduced a powerful fullback Marion Motley.
Jones recognized Graham as a lot of success in Browns. “We always felt that Otto could play a big game before the end of the game.
Jones has played 2,210 yards since the 1955 season, collected 2,874 yards at the pass reception, and recorded 41 touchdowns in 10 professional seasons.
From 1963 to 1968, he returned to Browns according to BLANTON COLLIER, the successor of Paul Brown, and supervised the Future Hall of Fame JIM Brown, Leroy Kelly and Paul Warfield. Browns defeated Baltimore Colts 27-0 to win the 1964 NFL Championship.
Jones sometimes scouted Louisiana State University and worked in Ruston’s general contract project. His son, Bert Jones, was selected as the most valuable player in the league in 1976 as an outstanding NFL quarterback with Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams from 1973 to 1981.
In addition to his son BERT, Jones survived by his wife Schumpert (Barnes) Jones. Four other sons, Bill, Schump, Ben and Tom; Two daughters, haveon glasgow and nancy knox; 22 grandchildren; And 38 great -grandchildren.
In addition to six touchdown games, Jones remembered the first game played by Browns in the NFL in September 1950. In September 1950, he won two previous league championships in the match against Philadelphia Eagles. Browns won a nice 35-10 victory on the way to the NFL Championship.
Jones compared the game to the future superball. When he participated in a podcast interview, he was “the biggest game I did.”
Sam Roberts Contribution.
