Grover Covington
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox CFL player Grover Covington (born March 25, 1956) is an American former professional football defensive end who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Professional career
Covington's career began in 1981 as a free agent signing by the Montreal Alouettes. However a pre-season trade that year sent him to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, where he played his entire career.[1] Covington was a seven-time CFL All-Star and often led the league in quarterback sacks. He won the Schenley Award for Most Outstanding Defensive Player once and also led the Tiger-Cats to a Grey Cup victory in 1986. He finished his career with 157 sacks, a CFL record. In 1995 Covington was inducted along with former teammate Chet Grimsley into the Johnson C. Smith University Sports Hall of Fame. (Grimsley's 2011 book The White Golden Bull: How Faith in God Transcended Racial Barriers includes a chapter on the relationship between the author, a white student at the historically black university, and Covington.)[2] Covington was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and, in November 2006, was voted one of the CFL's Top 50 players (#28) of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN.
Personal life
His son, Christian Covington, is also a football player.
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- 1956 births
- Living people
- Players of Canadian football from North Carolina
- Canadian football defensive linemen
- Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees
- Canadian Football League Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award winners
- Hamilton Tiger-Cats players
- Johnson C. Smith Golden Bulls football players
- Sportspeople from Monroe, North Carolina
- Players of American football from Union County, North Carolina
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