Rugby player
| Birth name | Thomas Oliver Grant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1933-09-05)5 September 1933 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | June 2022(2022-06-00) (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Oliver Grant (5 September 1933 – June 2022) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Grant played for Hawick.
Provincial career
Grant played for the Scottish Border XV in their match against Royal Air Force Rugby Union in 1962.
He played for South of Scotland.
Grant played for Provinces District - the combined north–south side - in their match against Canada on 28 November 1962.
He played for Blues Trial in the 3rd and last trial match of the 1962-63 season; the Blues edging a 23–20 win over Whites Trial.
International career
Grant was capped for Scotland six times between 1960 and 1964.
Personal life and death
Oliver Grant died in June 2022, at the age of 88.
His late, younger brother Derrick Grant was also capped for Scotland.
References
- ^ Bath, p138
- "Thomas Oliver Grant". ESPN scrum.
- "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- "Oliver Grant". Scottish Rugby. 8 June 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
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