Bruce Phillips (footballer)

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

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{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Bruce Phillips

| image =

| fullname = Bruce Osborne Phillips{{cite web |url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/tributes/notice/death-notices/phillips-bruce-osborne/4619628/ |title=Bruce Osborne Phillips |publisher=Herald Sun}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|5|2|df=yes}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|10|18|1929|5|2|df=yes}}

| death_place =

| originalteam = Camden

| height = 188 cm

| weight = 83 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1955

| years1 = 1947–1955

| club1 = St Kilda

| games_goals1 = 115 (42)

| careerhighlights =

}}

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{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22899867 |title=Phillips wins club award. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=13 September 1950 |accessdate=19 April 2013 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}} 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.

{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71798129 |title=BRUCE PHILLIPS MAY BE LOST TO FOOTBALL. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=18 April 1956 |accessdate=19 April 2013 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}}

In 2008 Phillips was inducted into St Kilda's Hall of Fame.{{cite news| url = http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=nstore&docID=AGE080606A45KP3AMH7C| title = Jeans is officially a St Kilda legend | first =Martin | last =Blake|date=6 June 2008}} He died aged 85 in 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.saints.com.au/news/2014-10-20/vale-bruce-phillips|title=Vale Bruce Phillips|last=Morris|first=Tom|publisher=saints.com.au|accessdate=20 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214153011/http://www.saints.com.au/news/2014-10-20/vale-bruce-phillips|archive-date=14 December 2014|url-status=dead}}