While at Cambridge he played in the 1932 December Varsity match, along with future Wales international Vivian Jenkins.
Wales had failed to win at Twickenham in the first nine attempts, and the Welsh failure at the ground was known as the 'Twickenham bogey'.
Bark-Jones played one more international game in the next match of the Home Nations Championship against Scotland at St Helens.
His son Richard Bark Jones continued the rugby tradition at Uppingham, Cambridge and Lancashire.
A quote from his son Richard Bark- Jones, "he was one of the best rugby players and a great father".