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'Big Ten Icons' Countdown Continues With Keyes
 
Legendary Boilermaker two-way football player ranks No. 37.

 
Named both an offensive back and defensive back on Purdue's All-Time Football Team in 1987, Keyes was selected the school's "All-Time Greatest Player."
 
Named both an offensive back and defensive back on Purdue's All-Time Football Team in 1987, Keyes was selected the school's "All-Time Greatest Player."
 
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Sept. 8, 2010

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CHICAGO - The Big Ten Network has named Purdue's Leroy Keyes as Big Ten Icon No. 37.

Big Ten Icons, the network's most ambitious multi-platform initiative to date, is counting down the top 50 student-athletes in Big Ten history on BigTenIcons.com based solely on their collegiate playing careers.

Keyes, a running back and defensive back at Purdue from 1966 to 1968, has been called the finest athlete to ever compete for the Boilermakers.

The native of Newport News, Va., was a consensus All-American in both 1967 and 1968, finishing third and second in the Heisman Trophy balloting. Named both an offensive back and defensive back on Purdue's All-Time Football Team in 1987, Keyes was selected the school's "All-Time Greatest Player." He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1990.

In an essay for BigTenIcons.com, former Chicago Tribune sports editor Dan McGrath writes that Keyes was "strong enough to power through tacklers at 205 pounds, but more inclined to make them miss with a shifty, elusive running style."

To read the entire essay and watch a video feature on Keyes, visit his Big Ten Icons locker at BigTenIcons.com.

Icons 50 through 21 are being unveiled through Sept. 16 at BigTenIcons.com. The website also will feature essays, video and other key facts about each student-athletes' career. Viewers can also participate in the "Talk of the Locker Room" contest with a chance to win the $10,000 grand prize. Weekly winners will take home a 55-inch Phillips HD television.

 

 

The television show, hosted by legendary college sports broadcaster Keith Jackson, debuts Sept. 18 following a Big Ten Network football telecast in which Icon No. 20 will be revealed. The countdown continues at 9 p.m. ET every Tuesday night through the end of football season and into the spring. The No. 1 Big Ten Icon will be revealed around the 2011 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament.

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