Walter "Gid" Miller (September 25, 1887 – December 19, 1959) was a Canadian professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

centre. He played with the

Montreal Wanderers The Montreal Wanderers were an amateur, and later professional, ice hockey team based in Montreal. The team played in the Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL), the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA), the National Hockey Association ...

and

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of the National Hockey Association. He appeared in 10 games for the Wanderers in the 1912–13 and 1913–14 seasons, and two games for the Senators in the 1913–14 season. During the 1908–09 season, while with the

Brantford Indians The Brantford Indians were a professional ice hockey team from Brantford, Ontario in Canada. The team played for four seasons in the Ontario Professional Hockey League (OPHL), from 1907 to 1911. Biography The Brantford Indians had their best OPHL ...

of the OPHL, Miller and the Indians were involved in a train accident outside of

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on January 14, 1909, where Miller suffered a season ending hand injury (cut off finger) when the rear coach of the Grand Trunk Railway passenger train they were traveling with ran into a ditch and overturned."Hockey team in a wreck"
''Ottawa Journal''. Jan. 15, 1909 (p. 9). Retrieved 2020-07-31.

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1887 births 1959 deaths Canadian ice hockey centres Montreal Wanderers (NHA) players Ottawa Senators (NHA) players Ice hockey people from Peterborough, Ontario {{Canada-icehockey-centre-1880s-stub