Phillip "Phil" Manning was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played with Hawthorn

Hawthorn Football Club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...

 in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL).

Manning, a student of Xavier College, came to Hawthorn from Mentone. He played in the final two rounds of the 1927 VFL season

1927 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1927.-Premiership season:In 1927, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume...

, against Melbourne

Melbourne Football Club

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 and Richmond

Richmond Football Club

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.

On 4 November 1930, Manning was the passenger of a motor cycle which struck a parked wagon on Balcombe Road in Mentone

Mentone, Victoria

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. He was admitted to Alfred Hospital

The Alfred Hospital

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with a fractured skull and died later that day.