Bob Grant (rugby league)

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Bob Grant

Australian national rugby league player
Personal information
Full name	Robert Grant
Date of birth	1945
Club information
Position(s)	Half-back
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1965 1966–1975	Balmain Tigers South Sydney Rabbitohs	5 (0) 135 (68)
Representative teams
1971 1970–1972	New South Wales Australia	1 ( 3) 2 (0)
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Bob Grant is a former an Australian rugby league player, a halfback of the late 1960s and 1970s for the Australian national side and for the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

[edit] Club career

He featured in the talented South Sydney sides of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He played in the premiership victories of 1968, 1970 and 1971. Grant starred with two tries in Souths' convincing 23-12 victory over Manly in the 1970 Grand Final.

In all he played 135 club games for South Sydney between 1966 and 1975.

Grant was voted Rugby League Week Player of the Year for his performances during the 1971 premiership season. In 2004 he was named by Souths in their South Sydney Dream Team,^[1], consisting of 17 players and a coach representing the club from 1908 through to 2004.

Grant (right of shot) behind John Sattler in the 1970 Grand Final

[edit] Representative career

Grant made two Test appearances for the Australian national representative side in 1970 and 1971 and represented in one game for New South Wales. From 1964 to 1969 St. George's Billy Smith held a virtual monopoly on the Australian representative half-back spot, then from 1970 Tommy Raudonikis began to emerge. Undoubtedly Bob Grant's representative opportunities suffered due to these fine players being his peers.

[edit] Sources

• Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League, Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
• Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney

[edit] Footnotes