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Albert Crist "Allie" Miller (June 23, 1886 – October 22, 1959) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Villanova College—now known as Villanova University—from 1921 to 1922, compiling a record of 11–4–3. Miller played college football at the University of Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1909.

Career

Miller was a reserve quarterback for Penn in 1907. In 1908, he filled in for starter Charles Keinath during the Carnegie Tech and Michigan games. Keinath left the game early in the season finale against Cornell and Miller scored a 47-yard touchdown to help lead Penn to a 17 to 4 victory. Miller was captain of the 1909 Penn Quakers football team. His younger brother, Heinie Miller, also played at Penn and later became a college football coach.

Coaching

In 1912, Miller was coach of Penn's freshmen football team. The following year he coached the at the Haverford Grammar School. From 1914 to 1916, he was the head coach at the Tome School. Forrest Craver took over as Tome's coach in 1917, but Miller returned the following year. He returned to his alma mater as an assistant in 1919 and was the backfield coach at Washington & Jefferson College in 1920.

Miller became the Villanova Wildcats football coach in 1921. That year, he led the team to its best season in many years, losing only one game. Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide credited Miller with developing "quite a good team from the mediocre material at his command". The following season, Villanova compiled a 5–3–1 record.

In 1924 and 1925, Miller was the backfield coach at Washington & Jefferson.

Later life

After football, Miller worked as an insurance broker for J. B. Carnett in Philadelphia. He died on October 22, 1959, at Abington Hospital in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was survived by his two sons and one daughter. He was preceded by his wife, Maude Skeene Clarke Miller, who died in 1954.

Head coaching record

References

1. "Goals From Field". The Pittsburgh Press. November 2, 1908. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
2. "Penn Loses Quarter Back Keinath". The New York Times. November 16, 1908.
3. "Old Penn Beat Cornell 17 to 4". The Philadelphia Record. November 27, 1908. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
4. "Miller Penn's Captain". St. Joseph Gazette. December 3, 1908. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
5. "Sporting Notes". The Crawfordsville Review. January 2, 1917. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
6. "Penn Names Coaches to Help Andy Smith". Trenton True American. April 18, 1912. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
7. "West Philly Has Husky Eleven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 29, 1913. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
8. "School Sports". Boston Evening Transcript. September 10, 1914. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
9. "Miller to Coach Tome". The Pittsburgh Press. June 19, 1916. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
10. "Warner's Choice to Direct Sports at Tome School". The Pittsburgh Press. August 6, 1917. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
11. "Miller to Coach at Tome". The New York Times. September 29, 1918.
12. "Penn Resumes Its Work For Cornell". The New York Times. November 25, 1919.
13. "New Coach for W. And J.". The New York Times. October 28, 1920.
14. "Allie Miller Will Coach Villanova". Harrisburg Telegraph. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. August 27, 1921. p. 13. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
15. Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide. New York: American Sports Publishing Company. 1922. p. 77. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
16. "Villanova State Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
17. "Allie Miller To Report At W. & J. Today". The Washington Reporter. April 22, 1924. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
18. "Allie Miller Arrived to Aid in W. & J's. Spring Gridiron Work". The Washington Reporter. March 31, 1925. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
19. ^ "Albert C. Miller". The New York Times. October 25, 1959.
20. ""Allie" Miller". The Express. Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. October 26, 1959. p. 3. Retrieved April 26, 2021 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
21. "Mrs. Albert Miller". The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 14, 1954.

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