Paul Miles (American football)

Miles played college football at Bowling Green State University for the Bowling Green Falcons football team, from 1970 to 1973.^[1] He was the third running back in NCAA history to have three seasons of 1,000-plus rushing yards: 1,185 yards as a sophomore; 1,024 yards as a junior; and 1,031 yards as a senior.^[2] He was rated by the Associated Press (AP) at the end of the 1973 season as the greatest running back in the history of the Mid-America Conference (MAC).^[3] Also at the end of the 1973 season, Bowing Green retired his jersey No. 29, the first and only player in school honor to be so honored.^[4][5] While attending Bowling Green, he also played the guitar and sang in a folk-rock style in a one-man nightclub act.^[6] He was inducted into the Bowling Green Athletic Hall of Fame in 1990.^[2]

Miles was selected in the eighth round with the 198th overall pick of the 1974 NFL draft by the Baltimore Colts,^[7] but he never played in the National Football League (NFL). Instead, he played professionally in the World Football League (WFL) for the Memphis Southmen during the 1974 season.^[1]