Miles played
college football at
Bowling Green State University for the
Bowling Green Falcons football team, from 1970 to 1973. 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). 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. While attending Bowling Green, he also played the guitar and sang in a folk-rock style in a one-man nightclub act. He was inducted into the Bowling Green Athletic Hall of Fame in 1990. ==Professional career==