Carleton’s Director of Athletics for 35 years, Keith Harris nurtured the entire Interuniversity Sports program at Carleton from its modest mid-century First Avenue beginnings to the wide-ranging program of the 1990s. He planned and supervised construction of the University’s athletics facilities and broadened the Varsity sports program with careful attention to the principle of gender equity. He served hands-on as Head Football Coach from 1959 to 1968 and Assistant Coach until 1974; and as Ski Coach, from 1959 to 1964. On the larger interuniversity sports scene in Canada, Keith served in many leadership positions, with the Ontario Universities Athletic Association (President 1988/90), the Ontario-Quebec Interuniversity Football Conference (Commissioner 1980/96), and the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union (President, 1973/74).
