Couper, Scott – Year of
induction: 2005
Set numerous records in eight seasons with the
Glasgow Lions starting off as a 16 year old at the Lions Youth team. At
the Lions notched up 410 career points (67 touchdowns, four two-point
conversions), 295 career first downs, 5,428 career receiving yards
averaging 16.3 yards per catch ... Career receiving yards and touchdown
records place him second on all-time British amateur charts (British
American Football Association) for receiving, behind fellow Hall of
Famer, Mark Cohen. In 1991 played one season with Strathclyde
University Hawks in the British Collegiate American Football League
where he later returned to coach receivers.

Selected for the Scottish Claymores in 1995, and
played through to the conclusion of the 2004 season (when the Claymores
organization was shut down by the NFL) he had played in a league record
87 games and caught a national player record 107 passes for 1,157 yards
and a Claymores-record 12 touchdowns.
Also selected to play for Chicago Bears against
Pittsburgh Steelers in American Bowl in Dublin on July 31 1997, thus
becoming the first Scotsman to play in the NFL.
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