Patrick Grant II (April 30, 1886 – October 28, 1927) was an

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player. He played

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and was a consensus first-team selection to the

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. Grant was born in 1886 at Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were Robert Grant, Boston probate judge, and Amy Gordon Galt. Grant enrolled at

where he played on the

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team. After the 1907 season, he was selected as a consensus first-team

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on the

. He graduated from Harvard in 1908. In 1912, Grant ran an aviation school at

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. While in Florida, he became engaged to Marie S. Disston. The two were married in September 1912. They had a daughter in approximately 1916. Grant served with the Royal Canadian Flying Corps and won an amateur golf tournament in 1919. In the 1920s, Grant managed the statistical department at the banking firm of Townsend, Whelen & Co. in Philadelphia. He died in October 1927 at age 39 when he fell from the window of his office on the fifth floor of an office building on Walnut Street in Philadelphia.

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