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Ned Miller, USC sports statistician, dies

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Years ago when Ned Miller was compiling game statistics for the then-Los Angeles Rams, publicity director Jerry Wilcox brought a computer into the press box to help make Miller’s job easier.

‘But we took it out,’ Wilcox told The Times’ Earl Gustkey in a 1978 story. ‘His head was faster than the computer.’

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Miller, who served as the official statistician at USC football games for the last 54 years and never used a calculator, died Sunday of cancer. He was 73.

Miller started keeping USC statistics in the Coliseum press box in 1956 and became the head statistician in 1975.

He also worked five Super Bowls and games for UCLA and the World Football League’s Southern California Sun.

You can find Gustkey’s story here.

-- Keith Thursby

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