HORRIE MILLER (RUGBY)

'Horrie Miller' was an Australian rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership. A wing-threequarter with the Eastern Suburbs club in 1908 and 1909, the first years of the new code.
Miller was a former champion runner who headed the League's try-scoring list in that first season - he scored a hat trick of tries in that year's semi-final and followed that up with a further two in the final. His only representative match came in that first year when he was selected to represent Sydney in a match against a touring New Zealand Maori side.
The wing three-quarter also served as Eastern Suburbs secretary in the club's first season. In addition, that year Miller was appointed secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Football League on a temporary basis, following the dismissal of current secretary J J Giltinan. The position became permanent in 1914 and Miller served in that role until 1946.
In the 1948 season the former league secretary unsuccessfully attempted to establish a rebel night competition.
Miller is credited with coining the phrase ''The Greatest Game of All''.

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★ The Encyclopedia Of Rugby League Players; Alan Whiticker & Glen Hudson

★ History Of The New South Wales Rugby League Finals; Steve Haddan

★ The Story Of Australian Rugby League; Gary Lester