Tommy Grant | |
Birth Date: | 9 January 1935 |
Birth Place: | Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
Death Place: | London, Ontario, Canada |
Import: | no |
Position1: | Wide receiver |
Position2: | Running back |
Position3: | Punt returner |
Position4: | Kick returner |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 11 |
Weight Lb: | 200 |
Amateur Title: | CJFL |
Amateur Team: | Windsor AKO Fratmen |
Playing Years1: | – |
Playing Team1: | Hamilton Tiger-Cats |
Playing Team2: | Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
Cfleastallstar: | , |
Awards: | - Gruen Trophy - CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award |
Cfhof: | tommy-grant |
Cfhofyear: | 1995 |
Tommy Grant (January 9, 1935 – October 18, 2011) was a Canadian football player who played 14 years in the Canadian Football League with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Grant played for the Windsor AKO Fratmen junior team that played in the Canadian Junior final.
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.