Joe Miller
Born	(1898-10-06)October 6, 1898 Morrisburg, Ontario, Canada
Died	August 1, 1963(1963-08-01) (aged 64) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb)
Position	Goaltender
Caught	Left
Played for	NHL New York Americans New York Rangers Pittsburgh Pirates Philadelphia Quakers AHA St. Paul Saints CPHL Niagara Falls Cataracts
Playing career	1916–1932
Football career
Career information
Position(s)	Halfback
Career history
As player
1924-26	Ottawa Senators
Career highlights and awards
2× Grey Cup champion, 1925, 1926

Joseph Anthony Miller (October 6, 1898 – August 1, 1963) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and a Grey Cup champion Canadian football player. Miller was a goaltender for the New York Americans, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Quakers between 1927 and 1931. Miller was a member of the 1928 New York Rangers Stanley Cup championship team.

Joe Miller, a native of Morrisburg, Ontario, first came onto the ice hockey scene with the Pittsburgh Athletic Association (PAA) in 1916–17, playing 40 games for the club before heading back to Canada where he would play for seven years with Renfrew and the Ottawa New Edinburghs. He then reappeared in Pittsburgh for the 1924–25 season, to play with the Fort Pitt Hornets in the United States Amateur Hockey Association, and then the two following seasons he played with the St. Paul Saints in Minnesota.

Miller played for the New York Americans in 1928 when he was sent to the minors after being waived by the Americans. By an interesting set of circumstances his Stanley Cup opportunity arose. His season with Niagara Falls over, Miller was at home in Ottawa when New York Rangers goaltender Lorne Chabot was injured in the second game of the Stanley Cup Finals. Rangers coach and General manager Lester Patrick asked the Americans and the Maroons for permission to use Miller for the remainder of the series. The Americans agreed but Montreal Maroons head coach Eddie Gerard forced Lester Patrick to play goal for the rest of that game. Miller was the designated backup for all NHL teams at the time, and he was loaned to the Rangers. Miller played three games for the Rangers and won the 1928 Stanley Cup for the New York.^[1]

Later he played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Quakers. He wore uniform number 1.

Miller was a skilled multi-sport athlete and was an accomplished elite football player. Suiting up for three seasons with the Ottawa Senators (an interim name for the Ottawa Rough Riders) he was a star player and part of two Grey Cup championship teams.^[2] In 1925 he was integral to his team's success, but missed the Grey Cup due to his hockey commitment in St.Paul.^[3] He was the star of the 14th Grey Cup in 1926, scoring three vital late games "rouges" (single points) and staving off two critical potential turnovers.^[4]

Miller's amazing two sport championship achievement makes him one of only three people to have their names engraved on both of Canada's premier sport trophies, the Stanley Cup and the Grey Cup, as players.^[5] The others are Lionel Conacher and Carl Voss.

In 1967 Joseph ‘Joe’ A. Miller was inducted into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame.^[6]

• Zweig, Eric (2012). Stanley Cup: 120 years of hockey supremacy. Firefly Books. ISBN 978-1-77085-104-7.

• Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database