Robert H. Scott (lacrosse coach)

Robert H. Scott, born around 17 March 1930 and died on 15 September 2016, was a Hall of Fame lacrosse coach who led the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays men's lacrosse team from 1955 until 1974. As a player he was an All-American midfielder on the 1952 Johns Hopkins team and also played on the 1950 National Champion team. His coaching record at Johns Hopkins stood at 158 wins and 55 losses with seven national championships, and he was named USILA National Coach of the Year in 1965, 1968 and 1972, winning the F. Morris Touchstone Award. He coached future Hopkins head coach Henry Ciccarone and Willie Scroggs, later the long-time head coach at North Carolina, and he was the Hopkins coach in the 1973 NCAA final, lost 10 to 9 in two overtimes. In 1976 he wrote the first edition of Lacrosse: Technique and Tradition, and he was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1977. He served as Hopkins athletic director from 1974 to 1995, and in 2016 the team erected a statue of him outside Homewood Field.