Desmond Neville Devine-Jones (15 August 1928 – 11 July 2010) was a Brigadier in the Army Physical Training Corps (APTC) of the Indian Army. He was part of the 1951 Indian Men's Football team at the 1951 Asian Games which won the gold medal in Delhi.

Devine-Jones was also the boxing coach for the Indian Olympic team for the 1972 Munich Olympics, as well as the country's flag bearer. He was elected secretary of the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation in 1976 and then reelected in 1980. He was an AIBA qualified Referee and Judge and officiated many international boxing championships. He was also elected as an executive committee member of AIBA in 1986.

D. N. Devine Jones

Honours

India

Asian Games Gold medal: 1951

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1928 births

2010 deaths

Indian Army officers

Indian male boxers

Indian men's footballers

India men's international footballers

Footballers from Pune

Asian Games medalists in football

Footballers at the 1951 Asian Games

Medalists at the 1951 Asian Games

Boxers from Maharashtra

Anglo-Indian people

Asian Games gold medalists for India

Men's association football midfielders

D. N. Devine Jones