Horace Phillips | |
Full Name: | David Horace Phillips |
Birth Date: | 24 August 1928 |
Birth Place: | Birchgrove, Swansea, Wales |
Death Place: | Sketty, Wales |
School: | Dynevor School |
Position: | Wing |
Repyears1: | 1952 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
David Horace Phillips (24 August 1928 — 12 December 2009) was a Welsh international rugby union player.
Phillips was born in the Swansea suburb of Birchgrove and attended Dynevor School.[1]
Active in the 1950s, Phillips was a Swansea wing three-quarter, capped once by Wales in the 1952 Five Nations Championship, against France at St Helens.[2] He was in the Swansea side that drew with the visiting All Blacks in 1953, toured Romania with the club in 1954 and held their captaincy during the 1955–56 season.[3]