Charlie (Horse) Millard first received mention in the town’s sports pages when his “two great catches in left field” led the Warren Live Wires to a 1928 victory over the New England Bloomer Girls, captained by Hall of Fame member Lizzie Murphy and also starring Warren’s Stacey Delekta.

He played for Hall of Fame member Howie Martin’s American Legion baseball team in 1928, 1929, and 1930, helping to lead the nine to Division Two titles in each of the latter two years.  In both of those years the team finished as the State Runner-Up.

In 1929 Charlie was a halfback on Warren High School’s first-ever football team and in the process earned 2^nd All Class B honors.  The team shut out Warwick and Barrington, but perhaps their greatest performance came in a loss to La Salle.  Following that game, the Providence Journal opined, “In the first half Warren threw La Salle back in as courageous an attack as any small school team has ever waged against a large school team in Rhode Island.”

Unable to play football in his senior year due to injury, he did earn Class B basketball honors in both 1930 and 1931, in the latter year helping lead his Red Raiders to a nine and three (9-3) record.  And in baseball his .354 batting average contributed to his being awarded honorable mention in the 1930 All State listings.

At Western Maryland College he played baseball, basketball, and football, returning in the summers to compete for the Warren town baseball team.

More than three decades later he returned to his roots and served as the doctor for some of Pat Abbruzzi’s championship football teams.  Perhaps his “greatest” moment came in 1973, when Pat, having already suffered one heart attack, was working himself up to his normal rant on the sidelines.  Charlie went over to him and was greeted by, “Doc, I told you, if I have to die, I want it to be on the fifty-yard line.”  And Doc’s classic reply was, “That’s why I’m here.  Move over five yards.  You’re on the forty-five.”

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