Cyrus Chace Miller (November 2, 1866 – January 21, 1956) was the third Borough President of The Bronx, and an American lacrosse player.

[4] Staten Island participated in the 1892 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) tournament with the Lorillard, Manhattan, and New York clubs.

Miller was critical of the New York club in particular:[5] When a club deliberately imports six or eight of the best players in Canada, feeds them like fighting cocks, keeps them with nothing to do from one week's end to another but play lacrosse, and then plays them against a team composed of business men who don't get a chance to practice more than three or four hours a week, I think it's about time to stop it ...

[4] In 1897, Miller accompanied the Crescent team on a tour of England with each player paying his own way as a testament to their club's principle of amateurism.

He stated "I have been somewhat strenuous in advocating the principles of pure amateur sport, I prefer not to remain under the stigma of receiving money for athletics."

The confusion arose due to Miller advising the team to hire a professional coach, as he no longer had enough free time to devote to the task.

[4] Miller was hopeful for the future of the sport and described it as follows:[10] When the United States and Canada are unified, Lacrosse may well claim to be the national game of the Union; for long before the earliest white pioneers and voyageurs in North America, the game of baggataway, which afterwards became lacrosse, was played by the Indian tribes in widely scattered parts of the northern continent of America ... With the elimination of old methods of play, the white man has introduced team play and science into the game, so that now it is recognized that no team of individual players, no matter how skilful [sic], can beat a team of merely good players who have fine team organization.Miller was an attorney by trade and worked for most of his life at the law firm started by his father.