Bruce Phillips

This article is about the Australian footballer. For the American musician and folklorist, see Utah Phillips.

Bruce Phillips
Personal information
Date of birth	(1929-05-02)2 May 1929
Date of death	18 October 2014(2014-10-18) (aged 85)
Original team	Camden
Height/Weight	188 cm / 83kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1947–1955	St Kilda	115 (42)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1955 season.

Vale Bruce Phillips (2 May 1929 – 18 October 2014) was 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] He died aged 85 in 2014.^[4]

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".
↑ Morris, Tom. "Vale Bruce Phillips". saints.com.au. Retrieved 20 October 2014.