14 Facts About Eagle Keys

Eagle Keys was a Canadian football player and coach.

Eagle Keys is currently fifth all-time in regular season wins with 131 as a head coach in the Canadian Football League.

Eagle Keys was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1990.

Eagle Keys lettered in baseball three straight years after the War.

Eagle Keys was an All-KIAC selection in football as a senior.

Eagle "Buddy" Keys was inducted into the Western Kentucky University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994.

Eagle Keys was All-Eastern Conference for three straight years with the Montreal Alouettes and then he earned a berth on the All-Western Conference team throughout the next three seasons while playing for the Edmonton Eskimos.

Eagle Keys is best remembered as a player for his final game when he played on a broken leg in the Eskimos' 1954 Grey Cup triumph.

Eagle Keys coached Edmonton from 1959 until 1963, became an assistant coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1964 and was promoted to head coach in 1965.

Eagle Keys was awarded the CFL Coach of the Year award in 1968.

Eagle Keys resigned at the end of that season and coached the British Columbia Lions from 1971 until partway through the 1975 season.

Eagle Keys retired from coaching after the 1975 season and was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1990.

Eagle Keys was elected as a builder on April 28,1990.

Eagle Keys had retired and was living in Burnaby, British Columbia, until his death on December 20,2012.