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James Jones

Title:
Assistant Coach - Defensive Line
Alma Mater:
Texas Southern ’98
At Dartmouth:
4 Seasons (2005, ’08-10)

James Jones, a member of Coach Buddy Teevens’ staff in 2005 as the defensive line coach, returned to the Big Green staff in 2008 as coach of the tight ends. In 2009, however, he returned to his familiar role with the defensive line.

For the 2010 season, Jones has virtually his entire line back after working with a relatively young group in 2009. Leading the line will be senior Charles Bay '11, one of Dartmouth's leading candidates for post-season honors. Jones' work with the tight ends in 2008 helped lead to the maturation of John Gallagher '12 in his freshman campaign as he led all the Big Green tight ends in receptions and yardage.

As a member of the Big Green staff in 2005, Jones coached the defensive line. Anthony Gargiulo ’06 was a member of that defensive unit and earned All-Ivy first-team honors. While at Dartmouth, he was also an intern assistant defensive line coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

He left Dartmouth in 2006 to become coach of tight ends and assistant coach of special teams at Kansas State. In 2007, he was defensive line coach and special teams coordinator at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Ky.

Jones has more than a decade of college coaching experience. Prior to coming to Dartmouth in 2005, he was assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. In 2003, Jones was the defensive line coach at Texas Southern University in Houston, following a three-year stint at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y.

Jones was the strength and conditioning coordinator while at Wagner (2000-02). He was also defensive line coach (2000, 2002), defensive coordinator (2001) and special teams coordinator (2000).

The Jones family, clockwise from bottom: Weslyn, Jzunie, Shondrela, James and James IV.

In 1999, Jones was the special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach at Cornell after spending the 1998 season at Morehouse College in Atlanta as the defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator.

As a graduate assistant at Bowling Green in 1997, Jones worked with the defensive line while also working with the defensive coordinator. As an undergraduate at Texas Southern in 1996, Jones coached the defensive tackles.

Jones received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Texas Southern in 1998 and completed a master’s degree in education at Wagner in 2002.

Twice Jones has had works of his published by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). First, his piece entitled, “A Defensive Code of Divine Guidance” was printed in American Football Monthly in December 2001, and most recently his work entitled, “Defensive Line Winning Edge” was included in the AFCA’s 2009 Technical Manual.

He and his wife, Shondrela, have two sons, James IV and Weslyn, and a daughter, Jzunie.

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