Head Coach Eagle Keys Saskatchewan Roughriders 100th Anniv. of Grey Cup CFL pin

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Head Coach Eagle Keys Saskatchewan Roughriders 100th Anniversary of the Grey Cup CFL football pin made by Laurie Artiss
.
It is in like
new condition.
Eagle Keys
(December 4, 1923 – December 20, 2012) was a
Canadian football
player and coach.
He is currently
fifth all-time
in regular season wins with 131 as a
head coach
in the
Canadian Football League
. He was inducted into the
Canadian Football Hall of Fame
in 1990. Eagle
Keys moved from the USA to Canada to play professional football in the
Canadian Football League
. He was All-Eastern Conference for three straight years (1949–51) 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
. He is best remembered as a player for his final game when he played on a broken leg in the Eskimos'
1954 Grey Cup
triumph.
After his six years as a player, he put in six more years as an assistant coach in the CFL before being named head coach of the Eskimos in 1959. He coached Edmonton from 1959 until 1963, became an assistant coach with the
Saskatchewan Roughriders
in 1964 and was promoted to head coach in 1965. He was awarded the
CFL Coach of the Year
award in 1968. In 1970, the Roughriders finished with a mark of 14 wins and 2 losses, a CFL record that stood until 1989 when Edmonton went 16–2 (by that time, the CFL had expanded its regular season schedule to 18 games). Keys resigned at the end of that season and coached the
British Columbia Lions
from 1971 until partway through the 1975 season. In 1966, he won his only championship as a head coach, with his Roughriders team winning the
54th Grey Cup
(which was also the team's first CFL championship in team history). As such, he was voted the All-Time All-Star Coach for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. In total, he spent 16 seasons as a head coach in the Canadian Football League.
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