The winningest coach in Georgetown football history, "Scotty" Glacken may have been its most consequential. Without him and his love for the game, Georgetown football may not have lasted past the early 1970's.

Glacken was a Washington native who, save for four years in college and two years in the pros, spent his entire life in the local area. He started playing football at age 12 and became an All-Met quarterback at St. John's HS, taking the Cadets to the first ever city-wide championship game versus Eastern HS, played before a record 49,690 at newly opened DC Stadium.

Glacken was a two year starter at Duke University, earning two time all-ACC and honorable mention All-America honors, finishing third in the nation in touchdown passes as a sophomore. Injured as a senior, he went undrafted in the NFL but played two seasons with the AFL's Denver Broncos before returning to Washington in 1968 to begin a career in real estate management. Invited by his Mush Dubofsky, his former high school coach at St. John's, to help him organize the club team at Georgetown, Glacken began a 24 year relationship with Hoya football.

In 1969, Dubofsky suffered a heart attack, leaving Glacken to lead the team through the end of the season, including a 14-7 upset of Fordham. Dubofsky's death two months later elevated the 26 year old to head coach, amidst some perilous times for the stability of the sport at Georgetown.

The National Club Football Association disbanded in early 1970, leaving Georgetown at a crossroads. The University could not maintain football unless it joined the NCAA, but would not make changes to support it financially. With Glacken offering to stay on, Georgetown announced it would move to NCAA Division II in the fall of 1970, and was later reclassified to Division III in 1973. "We will not be giving scholarships, there will be no full-time coaches and no big scouting program," warned athletic director Robert Sigholtz. "Nothing will change except the controlling association."

Georgetown survived, in no small part because of Glacken and a band of local coaches, some of them friends from his high school days, who committed afternoons and weekends to the fledgling team: Dan Droze, Jay Calabrese, Dave Alexander, and Dave Kecman, among others. But it was Glacken, a full time employee at Potomac Capital Investment Corporation, that balanced a growing business career and young family with the requirements of running a college football program.

"I have the same anxieties as any NFL coach or one at a major college," he told the Washington Post, "[but] the thing we don't have here is the same size, speed, and commitment. At major colleges the game requires a 12-month commitment. Here, it's a three month commitment and two hours a day." Had he not maintained that commitment, year after year, football at Georgetown could have likely folded; instead, a total of 650 GU alumni over a 23 year period got to play the game as a result.

Except for local players, Glacken did not actively recruit players, and was largely dependent on who was accepted to Georgetown and who wanted to play. For many years, the University did not allow spring practices nor pre-season training, leaving the coaches to delay the schedules to start until late September or early October to see who enrolled and give them time to prepare. Until the late 1980's, Georgetown rarely played more than an eight game schedule as a result.

"There are two reasons why I coach: the caliber of athletes we have here and the camaraderie I've enjoyed," he said. "That goes a long way and is something the average businessman doesn't enjoy," even if the average businessman wasn't driving a team bus on a Saturday morning or making sure all the equipment had made it to the field by game time.

Georgetown teams of this era had its peaks and valleys. From a 2-7 season in 1977, Glacken's 1978 team captured campus and local interest, finishing 7-1, its best record since 1940. A 33-32 loss at St. John's was the only loss of the season, preventing a Division III playoff invitation. A decade later, Georgetown won 12 of 17 games during the 1987 and 1988 seasons, but still fell short of the post-season. Its home field was demolished for the Yates Field House, where it was reassembled on the Astroturf-covered roof of the building. Football at GU had matured since the days of the club era's "football for fun", but it was still more of an avocation for the University than a priority.

The next storm clouds for the program appeared in 1991, when NCAA legislation would no longer allow Georgetown to play in Division III football, necessitating a move to either major college football (I-A) with 85 scholarships, or the mixed scholarship landscape of Division I-AA, allowing up to 63 scholarships per team. Extended internal discussions followed if Georgetown could even compete at the I-AA level without scholarship aid, whether it should move back to a club sport, or simply drop football altogether. In the end, Georgetown committed to an upgrade, but athletic director Frank Rienzo shocked everyone by announcing he had fired Glacken, one day before the announcement of a new Division I-AA non scholarship football conference, the MAAC Football League.

Glacken was stunned. "I've spent 25 years here and I've dedicated myself to the education of the players. I've made sacrifices financially, as well as time with my family," Glacken told the Post. "I'm bitterly disappointed that this part of my life has been taken away from me."

Over the following years, his successor at Georgetown, Bob Benson, established an outreach with Glacken, culminating with the former coach being inducted into the Georgetown University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002 before a large crowd of well-wishers, former players, and coaches. In later years, Glacken served as the managing director of a private equity firm and as CEO of the Yellow Ribbon Fund, a non-profit organization to support Iraq War soldiers returning to the U.S.

Scott Glacken died of heart disease in 2006 at the age of 62.

Year	Record	Pct.	Home	Away
1970	6-2	0.750	3-0	3-2
1971	6-2	0.750	3-1	3-1
1972	4-3-1	0.563	4-0	0-3-1
1973	3-5	0.375	0-4	3-1
1974	6-2	0.750	4-0	2-2
1975	5-3	0.625	4-1	1-2
1976	1-7	0.325	1-4	0-3
1977	2-7	0.222	1-4	1-3
1978	7-1	0.875	4-0	3-1
1979	5-3	0.625	3-2	2-1
1980	4-4	.500	2-2	2-2
1981	5-3	0.625	2-2	3-1
1982	3-5	0.375	3-2	0-3
1983	2-6	0.250	1-3	1-3
1984	1-6	0.143	1-3	0-3
1985	5-4	0.555	1-2	4-2
1986	4-4	0.500	4-2	0-2
1987	6-2-1	0.722	2-0-1	4-2
1988	6-2	0.750	4-1	2-1
1989	2-8	0.200	0-5	2-3
1990	5-5	0.500	2-3	2-2
1991	6-4	0.600	4-1	2-3
1992	4-6	0.400	1-4	3-2
Totals	98-94-2	0.510	53-43-1	45-51-1