David "Nana" Grant (1956–1994) was an Australian

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footballer originally from rangie New South Wales. He played as a

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/ back-rower in the 1970s and 1980s for a number of teams in the

New South Wales Rugby Football League The New South Wales Rugby League Ltd (NSWRL) is an Australian rugby league football competition operator in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and is a member of the Australian Rugby League Commission.It was registered on 21 ...

competition. Grant originally from Trangie, NSW made his debut for the

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in 1976. The following year he moved to play for the

Eastern Suburbs Roosters Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club, known as the Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs. The club competes in the National Rugby Lea ...

for one season, becoming the club's 678th capped player, before moving to spend four years with the

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. Grant toured NZ with a Combined Sydney side that year, 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

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; Armstrong had abused him from Yobbos Hill at Kingsford Smith Park. Grant died of a heart attack in Kyogle in 1994.

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