Horrie Miller

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Horrie Miller was a rugby league player in the New South Wales Rugby League(NSWRL) competition, A wing-threequarter with the Eastern Suburbs club in 1908 and 1909, the first years of the 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 years 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 served as Eastern Suburbs secretary in the clubs first season.

In 1909 Miller was appointed secretary of the New South Wales Rugby 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 unsucccessfully attempted to establish a rebel night competition.

Miller is credited with coinning the phrase 'The Greatest Game Of All'.

[edit] Reference

  • 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
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