Harry Phillips (Australian footballer)

Harry Phillips
Harry Phillips in 1893.
Personal information
Full name Henry Phillips
Nickname(s) Tick
Date of birth (1868-08-21)21 August 1868
Place of birth Queenstown, South Australia
Date of death 10 August 1923(1923-08-10) (aged 54)
Place of death Queenstown, South Australia[1]
Original team(s) Kingston
Position(s) Utility
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1886–1900 Port Adelaide 198 (125)[2]
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
1890–1894 South Australia 5 (4)[2]
Career highlights

Club

Representative

Honours

Source: AustralianFootball.com

Henry "Tick" Phillips (21 August 1868 – 10 August 1923)[4] was an Australian footballer and champion player for Port Adelaide. He is widely considered to be the club's greatest player of the nineteenth century.[5][6] Phillips played sixteen seasons for Port Adelaide. For his final two seasons, he was appointed captain.

  1. ^ ""TICK" PHILLIPS DEAD". The News. Vol. I, no. 22. Adelaide. 17 August 1923. p. 10. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Australian Football – harry phillips – Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  3. ^ "KINGSTON FOOTBALL CLUB". Port Adelaide News And Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser. Vol. IX, no. 631. South Australia. 8 September 1885. p. 5. Retrieved 25 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ ""TICK" PHILLIPS DEAD". The News (HOME ed.). Adelaide. 17 August 1923. p. 10. Retrieved 17 June 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Greatest Team". portadelaidefc.com.au. Archived from the original on 10 January 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Australian Football – Harry 'Tick' Phillips – Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 19 March 2016.