He married Dulcie May Ellis (?–1989), in Geelong, on Saturday, 29 April 1939.
He had exceptional pace,[2] winning the 1938 130-yard Stawell Gift in eleven and eleven-sixteenths of a second, off a handicap of 11½ yards.
A member of Geelong's premiership team in 1937, Grant won their best and fairest award in 1939.
In 1942 he moved to Fitzroy and spent two seasons with the club, topping their goalkicking in 1942 with 43 goals.
LAC Grant enlisted in February 1942, and was discharged, "on compassionate grounds", in June 1945.