Phillippe Sidney de Quetteville Cabot (18 July 1900 – 12 December 1998) was a New Zealand

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player. A wing-forward, Cabot represented

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and

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at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the

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, in 1921. He left the field injured in his only match for the All Blacks, against New South Wales in Christchurch. Following the death of

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in 1994, Cabot was the oldest living All Black.

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