Athletes on the Right?
Busting the conservative-jock stereotype
Meet Ben Miller ’11. At 6-foot-3 and 255 pounds, he is an offensive lineman for the Yale football team. But he’s more than that. He’s also a devout Christian who identifies himself as conservative.
He started playing football in the third grade. “It’s the sport I know,” he says. A Minnesota native from a suburb of Minneapolis, Ben attributes a large part of his personal development — as a football player, but also as a conservative-minded thinker — to his dad.
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