Career
Sewanee
= Playing career Phillips was twice selected All-Southern as a guard and captain of the 1902 Sewanee Tigers football team On the dedication of Harris Stadium, one writer noted "The University of the South has numbered among its athletes some of the greatest. Anyone who played against giant Henry Phillips in 1901-1903 felt that he was nothing less than the best as guard and fullback." Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff called him "the greatest football player who ever sank cleated shoes into a chalk line south of the Mason-Dixon line." A description of his play by John de Saulles included "His weakness has always, and only, been that of Southern players generally – defense.
He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team
= Coaching career He played Sewanee football for six seasons, and then spent two as a line coach. The two as line coach included an SIAA championship in 1909.
He assisted his alma mater from 1909–1911. And 1914–1915. SIAA
He was also president of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) from 1919 to 1922.
