Keyter, a ruckman and centre half-forward from Merbein, played 86 league games for South Melbourne, from 1953 to 1958.
[2][4] Also that year, he kicked a goal to give South Melbourne a four-point win over then reigning premiers Melbourne at Lake Oval in round 17.
[5] His snap shot, from 30 yards out in the pocket, went through for a goal as the siren went.
[6][7] He joined Latrobe Valley Football League side Moe, as coach, for the 1963 season and performed well enough on the field to gain the most votes in the 1963 Trood Award & Rodda Medal count, for which he was ineligible due to suspension.
[8] After another season coaching Moe in 1964,[9] Keyter was put in charge of East Hawthorn in the Metropolitan Football League in 1965[10] and they won three consecutive premierships in 1965, 1966 and 1967.