Jim Scott Season 1991

Honors & Awards
First-Team All-Big Eight (AP, Coaches, Football News, 1992)
Honorable-Mention All-Big Eight (Coaches, 1991)
Team Captain (1992)
CFA/Hitachi Scholar-Athlete (1992)
GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-District VII (1992)
First-Team Academic All-Big Eight (1992)
Phillips 66 Big Eight Academic Honor Roll (1991)
ESPN Nebraska Student of the Game (Colorado, 1991)
Cletus Fischer Native Son Award (1992)

1992 (Senior)
Nebraska’s starting center on an offensive line that powered the Huskers to their third NCAA rushing title in a four-year span, Jim Scott earned first-team All-Big Eight honors from the Associated Press and conference coaches as a senior in 1992. One of four Husker co-captains chosen prior to the season (also Travis Hill, John Parrella, William Washington), Scott helped the Big Red lead the nation with 328.2 rushing yards per game. Nebraska also ranked second nationally in scoring (38.8 ppg) while ranking 11th in total offense (438.2 ypg). Scott started all 11 regular-season games and the 1993 Federal Express Orange Bowl against Florida State after helping the Huskers to the Big Eight championship. An outstanding student, Scott was a CFA/Hitachi Scholar-Athlete and a CoSIDA Academic All-District VII selection. He also earned first-team Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight honors. Scott claimed Nebraska’s Cletus Fischer Native Son Award following the 1992 season. It is chosen by Husker coaches and presented to the senior who best exemplifies the qualities of a good work ethic, competitiveness, leadership, forthrightness, sense of humor, pride, loyalty and love of Nebraska.

Scott played in 26 regular-season games as a Husker with 15 starts. He also played in a pair of bowl games. He helped the Big Red to back-to-back NCAA rushing titles (1991, 1992).

1991 (Junior)
Scott played in all 11 regular-season games for the Big Red, sharing time with Bill Ziegelbein at center. Scott made four starts (Colorado State, Washington, Kansas, Oklahoma) and claimed honorable-mention All-Big Eight recognition from the conference coaches while helping the Huskers claim the NCAA rushing title (353.2 ypg). The Big Red also ranked third nationally in both total offense (506.5 ypg) and in scoring offense (41.3 ppg) before earning a share of the Big Eight title and a trip to the 1992 Federal Express Orange Bowl against Miami.

1990 (Sophomore)
Scott earned his first letter as a Husker after competing in four games as a reserve on the Nebraska O-line.

1989 (Redshirt)
Scott redshirted after transferring from UNK.

1988 (Nebraska-Kearney)
Scott played as a freshman on the offensive line at NCAA Division II Nebraska-Kearney.

Ansley High School
Scott played center and nose guard as an eight-man football player at Ansley High School, where he was a Class D all-state selection for Coach Dan Moore. Scott helped lead Ansley to the state championship game three times in four years, including a state title as a junior in 1987. He lettered four times in football, basketball and track. As a senior in 1989, he won the Class D shot put title and set the Class D record in the discus (177 feet). Scott was inducted into the Nebraska Eight-Man Football Hall of Fame in 2018.

Personal
The son of Ralph and Lorraine Scott, Jim was born July 4, 1970, in Loup City, Neb. He has one brother, Jerry, and three sisters, Judy, Jill and Joan. He earned his bachelor’s degree as a business administration major from Nebraska in 1992.