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{{Infobox gridiron football person
| name = Tommy Grant
| image = 
| alt = 
| caption = 
| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|1|9}}
| birth_place = [[Windsor, Ontario]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|10|18|1935|1|9}}
| death_place = [[London, Ontario]]
| team = 
| number = 
| status = 
| 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 = [[Canadian Junior Football League|CJFL]]
| amateur_team = [[Windsor AKO Fratmen]]
| playing_years1 = {{CFL Year|1956}}–{{CFL Year|1968}}
| playing_team1 = [[Hamilton Tiger-Cats]]
| playing_years2 = {{CFL Year|1969}}
| playing_team2 = [[Winnipeg Blue Bombers]]
| career_highlights = 
| CFLAllStar = {{CFL Year|1964}}
| CFLEastAllStar = {{CFL Year|1963}}, {{CFL Year|1964}}
| awards = {{CFL Year|1956}} - [[Gruen Trophy]]<br>{{CFL Year|1964}} - [[CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award]]
| CFHOF = tommy-grant
| CFHOFYear = 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 Football Team|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. 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==
*{{YouTube|DQTQDKB3w4I|Seen as a wide receiver and punt returner in the 1967 Grey Cup game won by Hamilton against Saskatchewan}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110726071024/http://www.wecshof.org/print_individual.php?id=337 Tommy Grant's profile at the Windsor/Essex Country Sports Hall of Fame]
*[http://www.ticats.ca/article/tommy-grant-is-the-2010-wall-of-honour-inductee Profile as Ti-Cat Wall of Honour inductee 2010]

{{Gruen Trophy}}
{{CFL Most Outstanding Canadians}}
{{45th Grey Cup}}
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{{Canadian Football Hall of Fame members}}

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[[Category:1935 births]]
[[Category:2011 deaths]]
[[Category:Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Canadian Football League Most Outstanding Canadian Award winners]]
[[Category:Canadian Football League Rookie of the Year Award winners]]
[[Category:Canadian football running backs]]
[[Category:Canadian football wide receivers]]
[[Category:Grey Cup champions]]
[[Category:Hamilton Tiger-Cats players]]
[[Category:Players of Canadian football from Ontario]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Windsor, Ontario]]
[[Category:Winnipeg Blue Bombers players]]

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