Kelly Jeffrey wasn't the Roughriders' first choice for offensive co-ordinator. So what? History may prove him to be the best choice.
, both of whom brought a Grey Cup championship to Saskatchewan as a first-time CFL head coach.
The Roughriders’ brass opted for a marquee hire — Jack Gotta — but he was let go two years later after posting an 11-22-1 record.Article content Roughriders head coach Eagle Keys returns to the Regina airport after the team won the Western Conference title in Winnipeg in 1966.The departure of head coach Bob Shaw created a vacancy that was filled in rather unglamorous fashion by one of his assistants — namely Keys.
The two-win season was such an ordeal that the wives of Edmonton players Don Getty and Oscar Kruger blasted Keys on a post-game radio show. Mrs. Getty and Mrs. Kruger maintained that Keys had lost the confidence of the Eskimos’ players, that he had not properly deployed the talent at his disposal, and that he should be dismissed.The Roughriders proceeded to go 68-25-3 under Keys — the in-house hire.
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