  Grassmann (or anti-commuting) variables are extensively used in theoretical
physics. In this paper we use Grassmann variable calculus to give new proofs of
celebrated combinatorial identities such as the Lindstr\"om-Gessel-Viennot
formula for graphs with cycles and the Jacobi-Trudi identity. Moreover, we
define a one parameter extension of Schur polynomials that obey a natural
convolution identity.
