Thomas Coster Scott (September 3, 1930 – August 31, 2015) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, ...

and

defensive end Defensive end (DE) is a defensive position in the sport of gridiron football. This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations over the years have substantially changed how the position is ...

in the

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(NFL) for the

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and the New York Giants. He played college football at the

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, where he was an All-American as an offensive and

. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979. Scott was also an elite

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player and was Virginia's first two-sport All-American. He was also on the U.Va. baseball and basketball squads. Scott died on August 31, 2015.

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