Freddie Scott

A former Scotland international, Freddie Scott was a free-scoring forward who won over 50 Scottish caps. He spent many years in the Royal Air Force and was at one time a Vulcan bomber pilot. He played a lot of his hockey abroad and was also a long-standing member of the English club-side Hounslow, with whom he also won Buckinghamshire county honours. In April 1970 Scott became Scotland’s most capped player when he won his 53rd cap against England at St. Andrews, surpassing Aberdeen’s Eric Watt’s total of 52. Scott was captain that day, as he had been for many years previously.

Scott represented Great Britain at both the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, finishing in fourth place on both occasions. At the Rome Games he was controversially dropped from the forward line in favour of the half-back John Bell for the semi-final clash with India. Britain lost 1-0 and then suffered a surprise defeat by Spain in the bronze-medal match despite Scott being back in the team. Scott was appointed secretary of the Great Britain Men’s Hockey Board in 1984, and in the 1990s took up a similar post with the Mill Hill Golf Club, London.