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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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