Bob Miller (American football)
No. 74 | |
File:Bob Miller - 1952 Bowman Large.jpg
Miller on a 1952 Bowman football card
|
|
Date of birth | December 11, 1929 |
---|---|
Place of birth | Norwalk, Connecticut |
Date of death | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. |
Place of death | Clarkston, Michigan |
Career information | |
Position(s) | Defensive tackle |
College | Virginia |
NFL draft | 1952 / Round: 5/ Pick 58 |
Career history | |
As player | |
1952-1958 | Detroit Lions |
Career stats | |
|
Robert Marguesse Miller (December 11, 1929 - August 7, 2006) was an American football offensive/defensive tackle with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League from 1952 to 1958.
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).
He died of cancer at age 76 in Clarkston, Michigan.[1]
He was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Pages with broken file links
- 1929 births
- 2006 deaths
- Sportspeople from Norwalk, Connecticut
- Players of American football from Connecticut
- American football defensive tackles
- American football offensive tackles
- Virginia Cavaliers football players
- Detroit Lions players
- People from Clarkston, Michigan
- Cancer deaths in Michigan
- American football defensive lineman, 1920s birth stubs