Mark Jones ( 15 June 1933 – 6 February 1958 ) was an English footballer and one of eight Manchester United players to lose their lives in the Munich air disaster . Jones was born in Wombwell , near Barnsley , West Riding of Yorkshire in 1933 , the third of seven children born to miner Amos Jones ( 1894 – 1968 ) and his wife Lucy ( 1896 – 1957 ) . He was the club 's first-choice centre-half for much of the 1950s and collected two League Championship winner 's medals
Munich air disaster
Munich air disaster
Mark Jones (footballer, born 1933)