Spring 1999

Scott Duncan resigns

Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Scott Duncan has resigned after 13 years at Rose-Hulman to pursue a career in investment services.

Duncan ranks second among Rose-Hulman’s 12 football head coaches on both the school’s all-time career win and winning percentage lists. He compiled a career record of 69-60-1 in 13 seasons.

Duncan, 41, recorded seven winning seasons in his tenure as Rose-Hulman’s head football coach. He was named the Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference’s Co-Coach of the Year in 1994, leading the Engineers to a 7-3 record.

"This was a very difficult decision for me, because Rose-Hulman is such a wonderful place to work. I’ve had fun with football and coaching, but I’ve decided that I need a career change. My family is a priority in my life, and this career change will allow me to spend more time with them," said Duncan.

National searches are under way for a football coach and an athletic director.

Duncan guided the Engineers to five straight winning seasons from 1986-90 and two Collegiate Athletic Conference championships. He won the CAC’s Coach of the Year award in 1988.

"I am very sorry that Scott Duncan has chosen to resign his position as athletic director and head football coach. We’ve shared many celebrations together in his 13 years at Rose-Hulman. The entire campus community wishes Scott well in all of his future endeavors," said President Samuel Hulbert.

Duncan took over as Rose-Hulman’s Athletic Director prior to the 1989-90 academic year. Highlights from Duncan’s tenure as athletic director include:

• Coordinated the creation of women’s athletics at the previously all-male school prior to the 1995-96 academic year.
• Led Rose-Hulman to an "A" in a 1997 grading of gender equity in athletics at Indiana colleges and universities by the National Federation for Women’s Sports.
• Had an instrumental role in the planning and design of Rose-Hulman’s new athletic and recreational facility.
• During his tenure, 31 student-athletes earned GTE Academic All-American honors, including two who were selected as Academic All-American of the Year.
• Coached five athletes who earned All-American awards.

Duncan was a standout linebacker at Northwestern University, earning a bachelor's degree in education in 1980. He began his coaching career as an assistant for one year at his alma mater. He spent his next two seasons as a graduate assistant at DePauw University. His next coaching stop was with Bowling Green State University, where he spent three seasons coaching the offensive line.