Don Scott (footballer)
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Don Scott is a former Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er in the (then) Victorian Football League
Australian Football League
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. Scott was a fearless ruckman
Ruckman (Australian rules football position)
In Australian rules football, a ruckman is typically a tall and athletic player who contests at centre bounces and stoppages . The ruckman is one of the most important players on the field...

 and premiership captain for Hawthorn Football Club
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...

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In 1996, Scott was the founder of the Operation Payback campaign, which was ultimately successful in its efforts to prevent Hawthorn from merging with another AFL club, Melbourne Football Club
Melbourne
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. Scott rallied many supporters and former Hawthorn players in opposition to the proposed Melbourne Hawks
Melbourne Hawks
The Melbourne Football Club/Hawthorn Football Club merger was a planned Australian Football League team that would have consisted of the merger between the Melbourne and Hawthorn Football Clubs at the end of the 1996 season...

 club's formation.

In 2001 Scott was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame
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Career highlights

Playing career:
  • Hawthorn 1967-1981 (Games: 302 Goals: 133)


Player honors:
  • Hawthorn club Best and Fairest
    Best and Fairest
    Best and Fairest is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.In the...

    1973
  • Hawthorn captain 1976-1980
  • Hawthorn premierships 1971, 1976 (captain), 1978 (captain)
  • Hawthorn Team of the Century
  • Victorian representative (4 games, 2 goals)
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