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Jun 9, 2021 · Bert Bell, the former Assistant to the Commissioner for Bert Bell Sr. and Pete Rozelle passed away Tuesday June 8, 2021. Bell Jr. was also known by the 1961-66 Baltimore Colts as...
- ‘He’ll Go to Penn Or He’Ll Go to Hell!’
- Dear Old Penn
- Bert’s Better Half
- From Eagles Owner to Commissioner
- A Football Man
Penn and football bellowed through the Bell family. John C. Bell played on the Quaker football team and was a member of the 1884 squad that defeated Harvard for the first time by a score of 4-0 during his senior year. He later became chairman of the University’s football committee and a Penn Trustee. In tandem with Walter Camp of Yale, John C. Bell...
Throughout his collegiate days at Penn, Bell was more athlete than student. His teammates once remarkedthat he “never came to class if the weather was bad outside.” But on the gridiron, he showed his acumen. Bell enrolled at Penn in 1914 and after playing a year of freshman ball, he became the Quakers’ starting quarterback during his sophomore seas...
Bell spent his 30s in the 1920s living a life of excess and vice. He drank a lot, stayed out late partying with Philadelphia’s most affluent, and, according to author John Eisenberg, “gambled on everything from cards to horse racing to boxing matches and football games.” He would cover his gambling losses by running to his father, who always bailed...
Under Bell’s ownership, the Eagles were not a successful franchise. They finished 3-5-1 in their inaugural season, 4-7 in 1934, 2-9 in 1935, and 1-11 in 1936. Their most successful season from 1933-1940 was a 5-6 finish in 1938. The team was also hemorrhaging money. In 1936, the team lost more than $90,000 (around $1.6 million in 2019) and was put ...
On Oct. 11, 1959, with two minutes left in the fourth quarter of the Eagles versus Steelers gameat Franklin Field, Bell collapsed in the south end zone stands and died of a heart attack. He was 65. Representatives from every NFL teamcame to his funeral to pay their respects. Halas, Rooney, and Marshall were among the honorary pallbearers. A year be...
Later that month, his first child, Bert Jr., was born. [51] In the Eagles' first three years, the partners exhausted $85,000 (equivalent to $1,870,000 in 2023), [52] and at a public auction, Bell became sole owner of the Eagles with a bid of $4,500 (equivalent to $99,000 in 2023). [53]
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- Pennsylvania
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- Haverford (PA) School
Apr 25, 2022 · Bert Bell talks to the Philadelphia Eagles during his time as the team’s head coach. His son Bert Jr sits on a player’s lap. Photograph: AP
Feb 7, 2023 · Madorna said he placed a 2023 NFC Championship flag at that grave to honor the Eagles founding father who is buried alongside his beloved wife, Frances, and Burt Bell Junior, who died in 2021....
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Nov 11, 2019 · In this July 26, 1939, file photo, Philadelphia Eagles owner and head coach Bert Bell talks to his squad as his son, Bert Bell Jr. sits on a players lap, in Philadelphia. Bell, who later became the league's commissioner, created the NFL draft as a way to assist teams who couldn't attract top talent in the free-for-all system that had been in place.
Jan 29, 2023 · His sons, Bert Jr. and Upton, remembered the phone ringing at all hours. Bell praised, criticized, cajoled, negotiated and gave numerous interviews.
