Roger Kerfoot
Roger Kerfoot
  • Team:
    Football
  • Class of:
    1992
  • Induction Class of:
    2023

Bio

Kerfoot was a four-year member of the Eureka football team from 1988-92, and he was a three-year starting defensive back.  

He received NAIA District 20 Honorable Mention as a defensive back in 1989 and was selected NAIA District 20 All-Conference in 1990. A team captain in 1990, Kerfoot returned as an assistant coach in 1991 and helped the Red Devils record a 10-0 season and a NAIA Division II playoffs berth. He was also on the baseball team in 1991. 

Kerfoot ranks seventh in program history with 26 punt returns, is tied for seventh with 14 punt returns in a season and is in the top 15 in program history in career punt return yards (13th with 129). He is also in the top 20 in career punt return average (18th with 5.0) and punt return average in season (18th with 6.2 in 1989) and is in the top 15 in program history in interceptions with five. 

After his time at Eureka, Kerfoot was a football coach, athletic director and administrator at several high schools in Illinois and Texas for 20-plus plus years.