Honoured Member Keith Evans to be Inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
- Alberta Sports Hall
- Jun 22, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 30, 2023
Honoured Member Keith Evans will posthumously be inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. He was inducted into our Hall of Fame in 2018 as part of the 1989 & 1990 Calgary Colts team induction.
To read more about this story, click on the link below.
I remember reading about builders in sports who never played a down but changed the game more than most players ever could. Keith Evans was exactly that. Founder of the Calgary Colts in 1965, GM from 1969 to 2019 — fifty years of commitment to keeping junior football alive in Calgary when it could have folded many times over. The mechanics of running a junior football program — finding housing for players, helping them get jobs, building the team's clubhouse with his own hands, even crawling under trailers to hook up plumbing — shows that you don't need to wear a jersey to be a legend of the game. That's why Honoured Member Keith Evans is being inducted into the…