Tommy Grant (Canadian football)

Tommy Grant

Date of birth:	January 9, 1935(1935-01-09)
Place of birth:	Windsor, Ontario
Date of death:	October 18, 2011(2011-10-18) (aged 76)
Place of death:	London, Ontario
Career information
CFL status:	Non-import
Position(s):	WR/RB/PR/KR
CJFL:	Windsor AKO Fratmen
Organizations
As player:
1956–1968 1969	Hamilton Tiger-Cats Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Career highlights and awards
CFL All-Star:	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 star football player in the Canadian Football League.

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 9 Grey Cup games, all with Hamilton, winning 4 of them

From 1961 to 1967 as a member of the Tiger-Cats, he played with Canadian Football Hall of Famer Hal Patterson at tight end, forming a formidable receiving corps. In the 1967 Grey Cup winning team, he played with Tommy Joe Coffey as the tight end, another Canadian Football Hall of Famer. Grant's quarterback in Hamilton from 1957 to 1964 was Bernie Faloney, yet another Canadian Football Hall of Famer, and from 1965 to 1967 Joe Zuger.

Grant himmelf 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