Tom Scott (linebacker)

Thomas Coster Scott was an American football and lacrosse player born on September 3, 1930, who died on August 31, 2015. As a professional he played linebacker and defensive end in the National Football League, first for the Philadelphia Eagles and then for the New York Giants. Before that he starred at the University of Virginia, where he played for the Virginia Cavaliers and earned All-American honors at end on both offense and defense. The College Football Hall of Fame inducted him in 1979. Scott was also an elite lacrosse player and became Virginia's first two-sport All-American, and he appeared as well for the university's baseball and basketball squads, which marks him as an unusually broad collegiate athlete of his era.