[2] On joining the club, professionalism in Scottish football remained theoretically illegal, and "almost without exception, the players were working at a trade they had."

[8] Nicknamed 'Great Scott,' an 1897 edition of The Scottish Referee provides a description of the player: Two old veterans have recently been called out to don their armour in the dire necessity that arises in cup tie battles.

He very effectively supported internationalist Bobby Calderwood in Cowlairs team ere migrating to Edinburgh, where he kept the impetuous Davie Baird on the move.

"[10] Following the end his football career, Scott carried on at the Cowlairs Railway Works, retiring in 1930 after fifty years' service and having attained the position of chief boilermaker foreman.

[11] In August 2013, Scott's 1894/95 Scottish Football League Championship Winners' medal, worth between £1,250 and £1,500, was one of five artefacts stolen from a display case at Tynecastle.