Jim Miller
Jim Miller went 60–44 as a head coach, 1949–1967, at Niagara, Detroit Mercy and Boston College. Share
Two seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 1949–50 at Niagara. They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 60–44 career
- Seasons
- 11
- Schools
- 3
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Best season
- 1962 8–2
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Niagara * | 2–7 | 3rd | |||
| 1950 | Niagara * | 6–3 | ||||
| 1951–58: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 1959 | Detroit Mercy | 6–4 | ||||
| 1960 | Detroit Mercy | 7–2 | ||||
| 1961 | Detroit Mercy | 5–4 | ||||
| 1962 | Boston College | 8–2 | ||||
| 1963 | Boston College | 6–3 | ||||
| 1964 | Boston College | 6–3 | ||||
| 1965 | Boston College | 6–4 | ||||
| 1966 | Boston College | 4–6 | ||||
| 1967 | Boston College | 4–6 | ||||
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.
Players he coached
Art GrahamNo. 7 AFL pick, 1963- Bob HylandNo. 9 pick, 1967
Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 14 | 7–7 | 50% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 22 | 16–6 | 73% |
| At home | 50 | 36–14 | 72% |
| On the road | 36 | 16–20 | 44% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 56 | 43–13 | 77% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 30 | 9–21 | 30% |
His own 86 games on file, 1959–1967, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander F. Bell 1960–1966 | 6–1 | Villanova | 7 | |
| Ben Schwartzwalder 1962–1967 | 1–5 | Syracuse | 6 | |
| Edward Doherty 1959–1961 | 3–0 | Xavier | 3 | |
| Edward Anderson 1962–1964 | 2–1 | Holy Cross | 3 |
Jim Miller’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Villanovaseries | 9 | 8–1 |
| Holy Crossseries | 6 | 4–2 |
| Syracuseseries | 6 | 1–5 |
| Buffaloseries | 4 | 3–1 |
| VMIseries | 4 | 3–1 |
| Cincinnatiseries | 4 | 2–2 |
| Armyseries | 4 | 0–4 |
| Daytonseries | 3 | 3–0 |
Other roles
- Team captain, Purdue 1941
From each season’s Wikipedia article.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949–50 | Niagara | Head coach | |
| 1951 | Buffalo | Assistant coach | |
| 1954–58 | Purdue | Line coach | |
| 1959–61 | Detroit | Head coach | |
| 1959–61 | Detroit Mercy | Head coach | |
| 1962–67 | Boston College | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included. Head-coaching seasons the infobox leaves out come from our records.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Stuart HolcombPurdue
- Jack MollenkopfPurdue
Worked under (2)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stuart Holcomb | Purdue | 1954–55 | Line coach | |
| Jack Mollenkopf | Purdue | 1956–58 | Line coach |
From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.