Mills was an American football player and military officer who was killed in action during World War I.
[1] A fullback, Mills was named a second-team All-American by Walter Camp and the New York Sun.
(WC-2; NYS-2; PR)[2] In 1905 he was admitted to the New York Stock Exchange and joined the firm of Mills & Co.[3] He was sponsored for membership by fellow Harvard athletes Robert Wrenn and William A. M. Burden Sr.[4] In 1916, Mills joined the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps and was stationed near Verdun, France.
[5] He later returned to the United States and entered a Plattsburg training camp.
He died on July 25, 1918, as a result of an accident behind the trench line.