Scott started his football career with Sunderland District Amateur League sides Braeside and Sunderland West End, before joining Clapton Orient in July 1908.
[3] At the outbreak of World War I professional football was suspended, and Scott joined the 17th Middlesex Regiment, the "Footballers' Battalion", along with many other Orient players and staff.
During the Battle of the Somme, Scott was wounded and taken prisoner, and died at a German military hospital on 16 August 1916.
[4] Scott was one of three Orient players killed in the war, along with William Jonas and Richard McFadden.
He is buried at St. Souplet British Cemetery,[5] a few miles south of Le Cateau.