Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 13, 1990                   TAG: 9003133027
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BOB TEITLEBAUM SPORTSWRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

PH SELECTS ED SCOTT AS COACH

The Park View-Sterling coach stayed on the sideline a year ago when applications were sought for Scott a vacancy at Patrick Henry. This year, though, he was one of the first to inquire when the job reopened and was advertised in early January.

"I called immediately to let them know I was interested," Scott said. "I wanted to get the process started."

Scott succeeds Dennis Vaught, who was hired last year but resigned in mid-season after directing a racial slur at a Patrick Henry opponent - Homer Ferguson High of Newport News - during a halftime talk with his players.

Scott, 47, became the front-runner despite going up against Gar-Field assistant Jim Hall, who had lost out to Vaught last year. Scott was the head coach at now-defunct Clifton Forge High in Alleghany County. His combined record is 142-79-3, with 103 of the victories and a Division 4 title coming at Group AA Park View.

Why didn't Scott apply for the job last year? "My youngest daughter [Alison] graduates [this year] from Park View," he said. "I didn't want to move in her senior year."

Free of that obligation, Scott and his wife, Frankie, decided to get away from the congestion of Northern Virginia.

"I asked Frankie to pick three locations where we could move if something became available. She picked Winchester, Harrisonburg and Roanoke," said Scott, who sent running back Allen Pinkett (Notre Dame) and linebacker Jeff Lageman (Virginia) to the National Football League.

Scott said he was willing to take a job at another Group AA school, but the position at PH was more appealing because it was a Group AAA program.

"I knew nothing about the material in the [Patriots'] program," he said. "I talked to [William Fleming coach] Sherley Stuart and [former PH coach] Willis White [now at Salem] at a meeting."

Scott, a physical education teacher, said he does not plan to bring any assistant coaches from Park View. The makeup of his staff will depend on which assistants remain and what teaching jobs are available at the school.

Scott met with the Patrick Henry players Monday, and though he won't move to Roanoke permanently until school is out in June, he plans to implement an off-season program.