DUMONT – Robert Scott, a star athlete for Dumont Excessive College within the 1960s, has died after testing constructive for the coronavirus.

Scott, 72, died March 29 at Stamford Hospital – Bennett Medical Middle in Stamford, Connecticut, based on his former classmate Phillip Barbara. He had been hospitalized for 2 weeks.

Scott’s spouse, Barbara, indicated that her husband had been affected by diabetes and respiratory difficulties in recent times, which made him vulnerable to problems from COVID-19.

Scott, a 1966 graduate, had lettered in basketball, soccer and baseball throughout his years at Dumont Excessive and is enshrined within the Dumont Excessive College Corridor of Fame. He was the beginning tailback for the 1963 Huskies soccer group that went undefeated and had been champions within the Bergen County Scholastic League.

Phillip Barbara, a former reporter for The Report from 1977 to 1982, remembered Scott as not solely a stellar athlete however a stellar human being.

“From the times I delivered The Report to the Scotts’ house, by means of highschool when he was a star athlete, and years later once we had been colleagues at The Each day Information – he in promoting, me an editorial assistant – he was heat and pleasant. If he was at a Dumont pub and I walked in, he’d name my title, and we talked in regards to the Information over a beer,” Barbara stated.

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Scott graduated from Colgate College in New York in 1970. He performed soccer for 3 years.

He would go on to a protracted profession in promoting gross sales for The Each day Information and the New York Put up.

He lived in Teaneck and Ridgewood earlier than shifting in 1985 to Manhattan after which to Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Scott is survived by his second spouse, Barbara Scott, his son, Erik and daughter, Erin, and their mom, Cheryl Cobb. He’s additionally survived by his siblings William Scott of Vermont and Diane Scott Levine of Island Park, New York.

A memorial service shall be held by the household after the coronavirus pandemic subsides.

Ricardo Kaulessar is a neighborhood reporter for NorthJersey.com. For limitless entry to crucial information out of your area people, please subscribe or activate your digital account today.

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