services as coach, which he denied in a letter to the editor. He stated "I have been somewhat strenuous in advocating the principles of pure amateur sport, I prefer not to remain under the stigma of receiving money for athletics." The confusion arose due to Miller advising the team to hire a professional coach, as he no longer had enough free time to devote to the task. The manager requisitioned $150 to hire a replacement coach, but the athletics department denied it due to a lack of funds. He served as the president of the Professional Lacrosse Association, and from 1900 to 1902, as the president of the Inter-University Lacrosse League. The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) came into being on December 22, 1905, through Miller's proposal. He recommended the combination of the Inter-university Lacrosse League and the Intercollegiate Association, which at the time, played under slightly different rules. In the USILA, Miller served on the Executive Committee. Miller was hopeful for the future of the sport and described it as follows: When the United States and Canada are unified, Lacrosse may well claim to be the national game of the Union; for long before the earliest white pioneers and voyageurs in North America, the game of baggataway, which afterwards became lacrosse, was played by the Indian tribes in widely scattered parts of the northern continent of America ... With the elimination of old methods of play, the white man has introduced team play and science into the game, so that now it is recognized that no team of individual players, no matter how skilful [sic], can beat a team of merely good players who have fine team organization. Professional life Miller was an attorney by trade and worked for most of his life at the law firm started by his father. From 1910 to 1914, Miller served as the Bronx's third Borough President. In 1912 Borough President Miler proposed the creation of terminal markets in New York City, including the seeds of the original Bronx Terminal Market. In his New York Times obituary, it is noted that Miller was considered as "the father of the Bronx Terminal Market". He served on the Real Estate Board which handled the expansion of the New York City Subway system, and in 1917, was named to the New York State and the United States Food Administration Boards. He also was a trustee