| Grover Covington | |
| Import: | yes |
| Position1: | Defensive end |
| Number: | 77 |
| Birth Date: | 25 March 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Monroe, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 2 |
| Weight Lbs: | 235 |
| Playing Years1: | – |
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| Cflallstar: | ,,, |
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| Cfhof: | grover-covington |
| Cfhofyear: | 2000 |
Grover Covington (born March 25, 1956) is a former Canadian Football League (CFL) defensive end for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Covington's career began in 1981 as a free agent signing by the Montreal Alouettes. However a pre-season trade that year sent him to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, where he played his entire career.[1] Covington was a seven-time CFL All-Star and often led the league in quarterback sacks. He won the Schenley Award for Most Outstanding Defensive Player once and also led the Tiger-Cats to a Grey Cup victory in 1986. He finished his career with 157 sacks, a CFL record. In 1995 Covington was inducted along with former teammate Chet Grimsley into the Johnson C. Smith University Sports Hall of Fame. (Grimsley's 2011 book The White Golden Bull: How Faith in God Transcended Racial Barriers includes a chapter on the relationship between the author, a white student at the historically black university, and Covington.)[2] Covington was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and, in November 2006, was voted one of the CFL's Top 50 players (#28) of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN.
His son, Christian Covington, plays as a defensive tackle for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.