Born in
Sydney, Scott's first-class playing career ran for two decades, from
1908–09 to the
1928–29 Australian seasons. During this time he played 59 matches. He also played
rugby league for
Newtown and in 1908 had the distinction of scoring the club's first ever premiership try. The bulk of his cricket career was spent with
New South Wales, but he moved to
South Australia for the
1925–26 season. Scott's best bowling figures were 6–48 against
Victoria, taken in
1909–10. The
1913–14 season saw him make his only century, exactly 100 against
Queensland. After his retirement from playing, Scott stood as a first-class umpire on more than 50 occasions, including ten
Test matches between 1936 and 1947. His first match was between
Australia and
England at the
Brisbane Cricket Ground on 4 to 9 December 1936, a match convincingly won by the visitors. Scott's partner in that match was
George Borwick. Scott and Borwick went on to stand in another nine
Ashes Tests matches together: a further four as part of the
1936–37 tour and five more on the
1946–47 tour. Scott's last match was at the
Sydney Cricket Ground on 28 February to 5 March 1947. As a player, Scott was regarded as a "likeable larrikin". In his early career,
Johnnie Moyes compared him to
Tibby Cotter, while
Jack Pollard called him "a fiery, outspoken fast bowler with a long record of defying authority". Indeed, Scott was barred for an entire Sydney grade season after a show of bad temper. As an umpire, he earned a reputation for disciplining fast bowlers for bowling short rising deliveries – the type of bowling for which he had been known. Scott died at
Springbank, South Australia at the age of 76. ==See also==