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Tom Phillips quarterbacked the Tomcats for two seasons, including in 1967 when the team won its first Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) championship. He completed 31 passes, six of which were touchdown throws, for 366 yards in 1967. He also ran for 132 yards and scored two touchdowns on 72 carries.
Efficient is perhaps the best way to describe Phillips’ play back in the late 1960s when the team only played eight games per season and power football still dominated the sport. Phillips threw 19 career touchdown passes, which ties him for the sixth most in program history, and his 112.3 career pass efficiency rating also ranks sixth in program history.
In 1968, Phillips owned a pass efficiency rating of 137.4, third best in program single-season history, and completed 53.2 percent of his passes, which ranks 11th in team history.
Phillips joins a long list of hall of famers who played on the 1967 championship football team, including: Jim Baird, John Castaldo, Patsy Combine, Logan Cribbs, Mike Donato, Jon Drenocky, John Gibson, Joe Krainc, Al McCartney, Frank Newnam, Bill Reading, John Tomlinson, Don Walters and John Wascak, as well as head coach Jim McCullough and assistant coaches Mel Berry and Wayne Petrarca.
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