 Whenever I think of that I get a lot of pride and satisfaction.”

Keen also spent 33 years as an assistant football coach with the Wolverines, 1926-1958, serving under head coaches Fielding H. Yost, Tad Wieman, Harry Kipke, Fritz Crisler and Bennie Oosterbaan.He coached Michigan's 150 lbs.Lightweight Football Team to two conference championships in 1947 and 1948; his 1948 team defeated Ohio State twice in the same season, the only Wolverine football team to accomplish this.