John Grant (born 19 March 1950) is an Australian businessman,

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football administrator and former chairman of the

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which controls

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. A former player of the 1970s, he was a Queensland interstate representative

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and a member of the Australian team which lost the

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in France. Grant had been playing his club football for the

Brisbane Rugby League The Brisbane Rugby League is a rugby league football competition in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was first held in 1922 and for every year until 1997. The competition was reinstated in 2001, known as the FOGS premiership under the Queen ...

's Souths club under Wayne Bennett. Following the World Cup, Grant joined English club

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, playing for them during their table-topping 1972–73 season. Grant had completed an engineering degree at the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

before taking up a scholarship with

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. He went on to head the

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company Data3 and become chairman of the

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. In 2011 Grant was named as the inaugural chairman of the

. The

2012 NRL season The 2012 NRL season was the 105th season of professional rugby league club competition in Australia, and the first run by the newly formed Australian Rugby League Commission. The main competition, called the 2012 NRL Telstra Premiership due to spon ...

was the Commission's first in control of the League.

References

External links

ARLC profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grant, John 1950 births Living people Australia national rugby league team players Australian rugby league administrators Australian Rugby League Commissioners Australian rugby league players Queensland rugby league team players Rugby league players from Brisbane Rugby league wingers Souths Logan Magpies players University of Queensland alumni Warrington Wolves players