Place of birth Windsor, Ontario Name Tommy Grant Cfl all star 1964 Position(s) WR/RB/PR/KR Weight 91 kg | CFL status National Height 1.80 m Place of death London, Ontario Role American football player | |
Date of birth (1935-01-09)January 9, 1935 Date of death October 18, 2011(2011-10-18) (aged 76) Died October 18, 2011, London, Canada | ||
Tommy Grant (January 9, 1935 – October 18, 2011) was a professional Canadian football player who played for 14 years in the Canadian Football League with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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Junior football
Tommy Grant played for the Windsor AKO Fratmen junior team that played in the Canadian Junior final.
CFL
Grant played 13 years with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1956 to 1968 and one more with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1969. An all-star twice (as a running back and flanker) he rushed for 559 yards and caught 329 passes for 6542 yards in his career. He won the Gruen Trophy as the best rookie in the East in 1956 and the CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award in 1964. He played in nine Grey Cup games, all with Hamilton, winning four of them.
Grant was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1995.