Researching Bob Miller

Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, he attended the University of Virginia, which finished 8-1 and ranked 13th in the Associated Press poll in his final year in 1951.

After being selected by Detroit in the 1952 NFL Draft, he was on the teams which won NFL championships in 1952, 1953 and 1957, and also the team which lost the title game in 1954. He was selected an all-conference defensive tackle in 1956 by The Sporting News. After retiring from football, he was the president and owner of Cavalier Manufacturing. In the 1970s he became a licensed horse trainer, breeder and owner of thoroughbred racing stable Del-Rob Farm along with his wife Delphine (the Del in Del-Rob). Delphine recently passed on August 4, 2018 at the age of 89 of natural causes.

He died of cancer at age 76 in Clarkston, Michigan.

He was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.

Miller was a high school hockey star for St. John's Prep in Danvers, MA, a college hockey star for the University of New Hampshire as well as the US national team at the 1976 Winter Olympics before turning professional. He was also a member of the US team at the 1981 Canada Cup and 1977, 1981, 1982, 1985 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments. He is the older brother of Paul Miller. Miller died on September 30, 2020 in Tampa, Florida.

During Miller's rookie season with the Boston Bruins (1977-78), he was one of 11 Bruins to score 20 goals, a record which has not been equaled by any other NHL team. Miller was present for the ceremony in 2018 when the Bruins celebrated the 40th anniversary of the achievement.

Miller, who was used mostly as a ruck-rover or defender, was recruited to the Melbourne Football Club from Horsham. He made his debut in 1961, for a Norm Smith coached team which had appeared in the previous seven VFL Grand Finals. Although Miller contested finals in his first three seasons, including a Preliminary Final loss in 1963, he never got to play in a premiership decider. Melbourne did make the 1964 VFL Grand Final, which they won, but Miller was not selected. He retired at the end of the 1965 season, having played 69 senior games with Melbourne.

In 1966-67, Miller was an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and between 1967 and 1970 he was a Human Rights Officer at the United Nations in New York. He became a barrister in 1971, signing the Victorian Bar Roll on 11 November 1971; he also lectured in law at Monash University between 1971 and 1979.

He joined the Australian Labor Party in 1970 and nine years later was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Prahran. Miller served two terms. When his second term ended in 1985, Miller contested the seat of Monash in the Victorian Legislative Council but lost to the Liberal's Reg Macey.

Miller, a 6'10" power forward from Louisville, Kentucky, played college basketball at Cincinnati from 1974 to 1978. Following his college career, he was drafted by the Phoenix Suns in the fourth round of the 1978 NBA draft. He would not make his NBA debut until January, 1984 when he appeared in two games for the San Antonio Spurs, recording four points and five rebounds in eight total minutes of action. Miller also played for two seasons in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) for the Louisville Catbirds and Cincinnati Slammers. He averaged 9.5 points and 11.2 rebounds in 41 total CBA games.