500 GAMES IN A ROW — SCOTTY TO HIT FOOTBALL GAME MILESTONE THIS WEEK

When the streak began, Lyndon Johnson was president. Postage stamps cost $.05. The top grossing movie in the United States was The Graduate. And it was the year of the first Super Bowl.

Larry Scott worked his first Minnesota State University Moorhead football game in 1967. He hasn’t missed a game since. On Saturday at Northern State, his streak of working consecutive Dragon football games will hit a big milestone – 500.

“Larry Scott is an icon for the Dragons,” MSUM athletic director Doug Peters said. “When you think about 500 straight football games and begin to translate that to how many student-athletes he has impacted — it is mind-boggling.”

“Scotty” as he has been known to Dragon coaches, fans and athletes for decades, was MSUM’s sports information director from 1969-2009. Prior to that, he had worked as a statistician for Dragon football games. After retiring from the SID position in 2009, Scotty became a game analyst for Dragon football broadcasts.

The streak has spanned almost 50 years and nine U.S. presidents.

“I never began with any kind of numbers in mind,” Scott said. “It’s always been fun following the Dragons. As the years piled up, we took notice. I never looked at that in advance.”

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