Keith Miller
North Melbourne and Geelong
AFL career
12 games0 goals
- Debut
- R3 1941 v MEL10 May 1941
- Most recent
- R15 1942 v SME15 Aug 1942
Stats
Bio
Recruited from the Port Fairy Rovers, Keith Miller’s VFL career was a brief chapter defined by the unique disruptions of the wartime era. He initially broke into the league with Geelong in 1941, playing five games in the hoops before the club was forced to withdraw from the competition the following year due to wartime travel restrictions. Consequently, Miller was among the Geelong footballers allocated to other clubs to keep the league running, finding a temporary home at North Melbourne for the 1942 season. He added seven games to his tally with the Shinboners before his career was cut short by service in the RAAF, leaving him as one of many young talents whose sporting prime was sacrificed for the war effort.
Profile
- Full name
- Keith A. Miller
- Born
- 20 June 1921
- Died
- 03 Mar 1987 (aged 65y 256d)
- Birthplace
- Penshurst, VIC
- Deathplace
- Mulgrave, VIC
- Height
- 182 cm
- Weight
- 79 kg
Teams
Bio
1 revisionRecruited from the Port Fairy Rovers, Keith Miller’s VFL career was a brief chapter defined by the unique disruptions of the wartime era. He initially broke into the league with Geelong in 1941, playing five games in the hoops before the club was forced to withdraw from the competition the following year due to wartime travel restrictions. Consequently, Miller was among the Geelong footballers allocated to other clubs to keep the league running, finding a temporary home at North Melbourne for the 1942 season. He added seven games to his tally with the Shinboners before his career was cut short by service in the RAAF, leaving him as one of many young talents whose sporting prime was sacrificed for the war effort.