Tommy Grant (Canadian football)

Tommy Grant

Date of birth:	(1935-01-09)January 9, 1935
Place of birth:	Windsor, Ontario
Date of death:	October 18, 2011(2011-10-18) (aged 76)
Place of death:	London, Ontario
Career information
Status:	Retired
CFL status:	Non-import
Position(s):	WR/RB/PR/KR
Height:	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight:	200 lb (91 kg)
CJFL:	Windsor AKO Fratmen
Organizations
As player:
1956–1968 1969	Hamilton Tiger-Cats Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Career highlights and awards
CFL All-Star:	1964
CFL East All-Star:	1963, 1964
Awards:	1956 - Gruen Trophy 1964 - CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award
Canadian Football Hall of Fame, 1995

Tommy Grant (January 9, 1935 – October 18, 2011) was a former professional Canadian football player who played for 14 years in the Canadian Football League with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

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. Most amazingly, 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.

Video clips

• Seen as a wide receiver and punt returner in the 1967 Grey Cup game won by Hamilton against Saskatchewan

External links

• Tommy Grant's profile at the Windsor/Essex Country Sports Hall of Fame
• Profile as Ti-Cat Wall of Honour inductee 2010

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Russ Jackson	CFL's Most Outstanding Player 1964	Succeeded by Zeno Karcz