Ollie Keller

{{Short description|American football player and coach (1929–2019)}}

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| name = Ollie Keller

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|3|8}}

| birth_place = Blount County, Tennessee, U.S.http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/101/Bill/SJR0280.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|4|21|1929|3|8}}

| death_place = Fairhope, Alabama, U.S.

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| player_sport1 = Football

| player_years2 = 1951

| player_team2 = Tennessee

| player_years3 = 1952–1953

| player_team3 = Memphis State

| player_sport4 = Basketball

| player_years5 = 1951–1953

| player_team5 = Memphis State

| player_positions = Halfback

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1954

| coach_team2 = Hall HS (TN)

| coach_years3 = 1955–1956

| coach_team3 = Maryville HS (TN)

| coach_years4 = 1957–1967

| coach_team4 = Memphis Catholic HS (TN)

| coach_years5 = 1968

| coach_team5 = Iowa State (assistant)

| coach_years6 = 1970–1971

| coach_team6 = Memphis State (assistant)

| coach_years7 = 1972–1975

| coach_team7 = Northeast Louisiana

| coach_years8 = 1976

| coach_team8 = Colorado State (OC)

| overall_record = 14–24–3 (college)

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Ollie Keller (March 8, 1929 – April 21, 2019) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Northeast Louisiana University—now known as University of Louisiana at Monroe—in Monroe, Louisiana for four seasons, from 1972 until 1975, compiling record of 14–24–3.

Coaching career

Keller began his coaching career at Halls High School followed by two years at his high school alma mater, Maryville High School. He spent the next ten years coaching at Memphis Catholic High School (1957–1967), which was a perennial football powerhouse. Keller moved to the college level in 1968 as an assistant at Iowa State University under Johnny Majors before returning to Memphis State as an assistant in 1970.

Death

Keller died on April 21, 2019, at his home in Fairhope, Alabama.{{cite news |author= |title=Coach Ollie Keller |url=https://www.tennessean.com/obituaries/ten122389 |newspaper=The Tennessean |location=Nashville, Tennessee |date=April 26, 2019 |access-date=October 6, 2021 }}