Scott played for
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic during his
National service at the end of
World War II, and returned to Aberdeen upon being
demobbed. He played junior football for
Sunnybank in Aberdeen, with whom he won the
Scottish Junior Cup at
Hampden Park in
1954. He was signed by Aberdeen manager
Dave Halliday following that victory. Scott faced strong competition for a place in the senior side, and only played one first-team game for Aberdeen. In a search for first-team football, Scott then played for
Brechin City and
Elgin City, but returned to Aberdeen to work as trainer, or coach. Scott's coaching duties were mainly with the youth and reserve sides, and he was regarded by many of the young players who later became first-team regulars, and in some cases, household names, as a
mentor or father figure. Scott himself explained his philosophy of the game: Scott's duties at Pittodrie were many and varied; the club's official history recounts the tale of arriving for an away European match under the management of
Sir Alex Ferguson; when it was discovered that the wrong shorts had been brought, Ferguson threatened to sack Scott, only for
Gordon Strachan, one of Aberdeen's players, to ask: Scott was held in sufficient high regard by the club that he was awarded a
testimonial match - an honour normally reserved for long-serving players - in January 1999. He was posthumously awarded a winners medal for the
UEFA Cup Winners Cup triumph from
1983. ==References==