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
CFL status	National
Position(s)	WR/RB/PR/KR
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight	200 lb (91 kg)
CJFL	Windsor AKO Fratmen
Career history
As player
1956–1968	Hamilton Tiger-Cats
1969	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
Career stats
Canadian Football Hall of Fame, 1995

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.

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 on YouTube

External links

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