David Grant (rugby league)

David Grant
Personal information
Born(1956-01-11)11 January 1956
Trangie, New South Wales, Australia
Died20 August 1994(1994-08-20) (aged 38)
Kyogle, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
PositionProp, Second-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1976 South Sydney 1 1 0 0 3
1977 Eastern Suburbs 1 0 0 0 0
1978–81 Balmain Tigers 50 8 0 0 24
1982–85 Canberra Raiders 77 9 0 0 32
Total 129 18 0 0 59
Source: [1]
As of 4 March 2018

David "Nana" Grant (1956–1994) was an Australian rugby league footballer originally from [Trangie], New South Wales. He played as a prop/back-rower in the 1970s and 1980s for a number of teams in the New South Wales Rugby Football League competition.

Grant originally from Trangie, NSW made his debut for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 1976. The following year he moved to play for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters for one season, becoming the club's 678th capped player, before moving to spend four years with the Balmain Tigers. Grant toured NZ with a Combined Sydney side that year[clarification needed], then moved to the newly promoted Canberra club in 1982. He was the Raiders's first captain in its inaugural season in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. Grant knocked out a member of the crowd (Peter Armstrong) in Ballina in 1992 when he was playing for Kyogle; Armstrong had abused him from Yobbos Hill at Kingsford Smith Park.[citation needed]

Grant died of a heart attack in Kyogle in 1994.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "David Grant – Playing Career – Summary". Rugby League Project.

Sources

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Sporting positions
New creation Canberra Raiders captain
1982
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