Harry Phillips (Australian footballer)

Harold Phillips
Personal information
Full name Harold Phillips
Nickname(s) Harry, Tick
Date of birth 1867 or 1868
Date of death 10 August 1923 (aged 55)
Position(s) Utility
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1885–1900 Port Adelaide 198 (125)[1]
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1890-1894 South Australia 5 (4)[1]
Career highlights

Harry 'Tick' Phillips (died 10 August 1923[2]) was a champion player for the Port Adelaide Football Club. He is widely considered to be the club's greatest player of the nineteenth century.[3][4] Phillips played sixteen seasons for Port Adelaide. For his final two seasons, he was appointed captain.

In 1890, Phillips was a member of Port Adelaide's victorious Championship of Australia side who defeated South Melbourne for the national title.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Australian Football - harry phillips - Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
  2. ↑ ""TICK" PHILLIPS DEAD.". The News (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 17 August 1923. p. 10 Edition: HOME EDITION. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  3. ↑ "Greatest Team - portadelaidefc.com.au". portadelaidefc.com.au. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  4. ↑ "Australian Football - Harry 'Tick' Phillips - Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  5. ↑ "FOOTBALL.". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 6 October 1890. p. 6. Retrieved 11 February 2015.


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