Leo Miller (American football)

Leo Miller
Biographical details
Born1895
Cherokee, North Carolina, U.S.
Died1961
Playing career
Football
1911–1913Carlisle
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1932–1933CCNY (assistant)
1943CCNY
Lacrosse
1932–1960CCNY

Leon A. "Chief" Miller (1895–1961) was an American football and lacrosse coach.[1] He served as the head football coach at the City College of New York (CCNY) in 1943.[2] He also served as the CCNY's head men's lacrosse coach from 1932 to 1960.[3] As a college football player during the early 1910s, Miller was a teammate of Jim Thorpe at the Carlisle Indian School.[4]

  1. ^ "Leon Miller". US Lacrosse. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
  2. ^ "Jack Kapchan-CCNY football". Brooklyn Newsstand. August 8, 1931. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
  3. ^ "Lacrosse; A Goalie Keeps Faith For an Iroquois Nation". New York Times. January 29, 1993. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  4. ^ King, C. Richard (March 10, 2015). Native Americans in Sports. Routledge. ISBN 9781317464020. Retrieved December 30, 2018.