Three-time Grey Cup champ Eagle Keys dies
Posted December 20, 2012 6:54 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Former head coach of the BC Lions Football Club and Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee Eagle Keys has died at the age of 89.
Keys came to the Lions in 1971. He coached the club to a 25-42-3 record through four full seasons and six games into the 1975 campaign.
He was best known for on-field performances as a member of the Montreal Alouettes (1949-‘51) and Edmonton Eskimos (1952-’54), Keys played for two Grey Cup-winning teams and was a member of three CFL All-Star squads. The late Keys also made his mark from the sidelines, guiding the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a Grey Cup in 1966.
Keys was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame as a builder in 1990.
