Jack Grant

Not to be confused with Australian rules footballer Jack A. Grant.

Jack Grant
Personal information
Date of birth	24 September 1915
Date of death
Original team(s)	Chilwell (GDFL)
Height/Weight	183 cm / 82 kg
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1935–1941 1942–1943 1945–1946 Total -	Geelong Fitzroy Geelong	099 0(71) 026 0(58) 020 0(28) 145 (157)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1946 season.

Jack W. Grant (24 September 1915 – 1 December 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Grant usually played on the half forward or half back flank.

He had exceptional pace, winning the 1938 130-yard Stawell Gift in eleven and eleven-sixteenths of a second, off a handicap of 11½ yards.

A member of Geelong's premiership team in 1937, Grant won their best and fairest award in 1939 and was their leading goalkicker in 1940 with 47 goals. In 1942 he moved to Fitzroy and spent two seasons with the club, topping their goalkicking in 1942 with 43 goals. He returned to Geelong in 1945 and captained them the following season.

External links

• Jack Grant's statistics from AFL Tables
• Paul Daffey, "The ten best footballers at the Stawell Gift" (The Sunday Age, 27 March 2005)
• Geelong Football Club Honour Roll