Miller Hall Pontius (April 17, 1891 – November 5, 1960) was an American football player and investment banker.

A native of Circleville, Ohio, Pontius played college football as a tackle and end for coach Fielding H. Yost's Michigan Wolverines from 1911 to 1913.

While attending Michigan, Pontius was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Barristers, Michigammua, and The Friars.

[2] He became known as an outstanding athlete at Michigan, playing for the football and baseball teams and also developing a reputation as an excellent boxer.

As a sophomore, he weighed approximately 200 pounds and played at the end and tackle positions for the 1911 team.

"[8] When he arrived in Ann Arbor in September, he was "not in condition to stand the grueling work of a football season.

"[8] After a promising showing by Pontius in 1911, his loss reportedly cost coach Yost "much worry and sleep.

"[9] At the end of the 1912 season, Pontius received first team All-Western honors from Chicago football writer George W. Axelson,[10] E. C. Patterson for Collier's Weekly[11] Fielding H. Yost in the Detroit Free Press,[12] and Walter Eckersall for the Chicago Tribune.

Collier's Weekly wrote the following of his performance in that game: "He was aggressive against Pennsylvania, playing both end and tackle.

[22] However, in February 1914, Pontius announced that he would not play baseball that spring "as a result of scholastic difficulties.

In March 1916, Pontius was hired as an assistant coach responsible for the lineman on the 1916 Michigan football team.

[32] In October 1916, the Syracuse Herald noted that "the line coaching of Miller Pontius has helped remarkably in bolstering up their department, and the back field can bank on much better protection.

Pontius was a star of the first magnitude himself during his college career and he seems to have the gift for imparting to others the knowledge that he learned while actively engaged in mussing up the scenery .

[38] He spent three years in South America working for the foreign department of the National City Bank.

Ohrstrom & Co., Inc.,[40] an investment banking, brokerage and real estate development firm founded by fellow University of Michigan alumnus, George L.

He moved to the New York City office in 1943 as syndicate manager and senior vice president.

[2] In 1922, Pontius married Mildred Carrington Taylor of Port Huron, Michigan, in a ceremony at Watertown, New York.

His widow, son, and grandson (Miller Hall Pontius II) attended the dedication ceremony.