Phillip Cox (rugby union)

{{Short description|Australian rugby union international}}

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| name = Phillip Cox

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| full_name = Phillip Anthony Cox

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|08|02|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sydney, Australia

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| relatives = Mitchell Cox (brother)

| position = Scrum-half

| repyears1 = 1979–84

| repteam1 = {{nrut|Australia}}

| repcaps1 = 16

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Phillip Anthony Cox (born 2 August 1957) is an Australian former rugby union international.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126886462 |title=Tough case for Cox |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=28 July 1982 |page=1 (Sports) |via=National Library of Australia}}

Cox, son of 1950s Wallabies halfback Brian Cox, was educated at Balgowlah Boys’ High School in Sydney.{{cite news |title=Phillip's incredible day |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122634526/ |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=24 October 1981}}

A Manly junior product, Cox made his first-grade debut for the club in 1978. By the end of the next year, he had claimed a place on the Wallabies squad to tour Argentina, making his Test debut in Buenos Aires at the age of 22. He was capped 16 times for the Wallabies in total, often forming a half-back partnership with Mark Ella. His career included the 1981–82 tour of Britain, where he was capped alongside his brother Mitchell in the Test against Wales, which made them the first Wallabies brothers since Jeff and Paul McLean. He made his final international appearances in 1984.{{cite web |title=Phillip Anthony Cox |url=https://classicwallabies.com.au/players/phillip-anthony-cox |website=classicwallabies.com.au |language=en}}