Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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Athletes on the Right?

Busting the conservative-jock stereotype

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, February 29, 2008

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.

Ben’s love for the all-American sport carried over from his father, who coached his grade-school teams when he was...

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