Bruce Phillips

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Bruce Phillips
Personal information
Date of birth	(1929-05-02) May 2, 1929
Original team	Camden
Debut	1947, St Kilda
Height/Weight	188 cm / 83kg
Playing career¹
St Kilda (1947-55) 115 games, 42 goals
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1955 season.

Bruce Phillips (born 2 May 1929) is a former 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^[1] 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.^[2]

In 2008 Phillips was inducted into St Kilda's Hall of Fame.^[3]

References

↑ "Phillips wins club award.". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) (Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia). 13 September 1950. p. 13. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
↑ "BRUCE PHILLIPS MAY BE LOST TO FOOTBALL.". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) (Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia). 18 April 1956. p. 26. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
↑ Blake, Martin (6 June 2008). "Jeans is officially a St Kilda legend".

Persondata
Name	Phillips, Bruce
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	2 May 1929
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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