Jim Miller (Australian footballer)

Jim Miller (Australian footballer)

Infobox afl player NEW
playername = Jim Miller
fullname = Jim 'Frosty' Miller
image capt =


birthdate = 3 May 1944
birthplace = West Gippsland
originalteam = Garfield
heightweight = 183 cm / 85 kg
position =
years = 1964-65
1966-74
clubs = Carlton
Dandenong
games(goals) = 11 (29)
183 (885)
statsend = 1974
careerhighlights =

Jim 'Frosty' Miller (born 3 May 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and had a noted career with Dandenong in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

Miller, a full-forward, started his career at Carlton and showed glimpses of his prolific goalkicking in his two seasons, scoring five goals against Hawthorn in just his second game and managing a sequence of five, six and four goals during the 1964 season. Miller decided to leave Carlton in 1966 and joined VFA club Dandenong.

He was a member of Dandenong's 1971 premiership team, remembered for a controversial free kick that he received before the opening siren. The umpire, believing that Preston full-back Barrie Leslie had pushed Miller in the back, awarded a free kick despite the start of play not having been signalled. Miller kicked the goal and four quarters later Dandenong won by six points. Preston lodged a protest after the game and it went to a VFA hearing, with the final decision from the committee going in Dandenong's favour 39 votes to five.

From 1968 to 1971, Miller topped the league's goalkicking. He was the leading goalkicker again in 1973 with a career high 108 goals and again for the sixth and final time in 1974. By the time he retired in 1974 he had amassed 885 goals at an average of 4.8 per game.

The Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal, awarded to the leading goalkicking in the modern day VFL, is named in his honour. He is a full-forward in Dandenong's official 'Team of the Century'.

References

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* [http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Jim%20'Frosty'%20Miller Jim Miller profile from Blueseum]
*Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). "The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers". 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.


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