Bruce Phillips (footballer)

Australian rules footballer

This article is about the Australian footballer. For the Canadian television journalist, see Bruce Phillips (journalist). For the American musician and folklorist, see Utah Phillips.

Australian rules footballer

Bruce Phillips
Personal information
Full name	Bruce Osborne Phillips^[1]
Date of birth	(1929年05月02日)2 May 1929
Date of death	18 October 2014(2014年10月18日) (aged 85)
Original team(s)	Camden
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1947–1955	St Kilda	115 (42)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1955.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Bruce Osborne Phillips (2 May 1929 – 18 October 2014) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League.

A fullback, Phillips won St Kilda's best and fairest award in 1950^[2] and finished equal third in the Brownlow Medal count that year.

Phillips, who was a VFL representative in interstate football, played 115 games for St Kilda before a knee injury ended his career.^[3]

In 2008 Phillips was inducted into St Kilda's Hall of Fame.^[4] He died aged 85 in 2014.^[5]

References

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^ "Bruce Osborne Phillips". Herald Sun.
^ "Phillips wins club award". The Argus . Melbourne. 13 September 1950. p. 13. Retrieved 19 April 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "BRUCE PHILLIPS MAY BE LOST TO FOOTBALL". The Argus . Melbourne. 18 April 1956. p. 26. Retrieved 19 April 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Blake, Martin (6 June 2008). "Jeans is officially a St Kilda legend".
^ Morris, Tom. "Vale Bruce Phillips". saints.com.au. Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.