Don Miller-Halfback

*Don Miller
*Born May 30, 1902 in Defiance, Ohio
*Miller had three brothers that all attended Notre Dame before him, all who were monogram winners for the football team. The most famous of these being his brother, Red Miller, who was the captain of the 1909 squad
*President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him U.S. District Attorney for Northern Ohio
*Miller died in 1979 at the age of 77

*Football Career
*Right Halfback and member of the Four Horsemen
*Notre Dame head coach Knute Rockne called Miller “The greatest open field runner I ever had.”
*Miller proved to be Notre Dame’s breakaway threat
*After his playing career, he coached at several colleges, in which he coached at Georgia Tech for four years
*Miller eventually decided to quit coaching and pick up his career in law, in which he was extremely successful in the Cleveland, Ohio area.
*Inducted to the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1970