Alvin Bell
{{Short description|American football and basketball player, football official}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
|name=Alvin Bell
|image=pepbell.png
|image_size=175px
|caption=Bell c. 1922
|alt=
|weight_lb=150
|birth_date= {{Birth date|1901|10|1}}
|birth_place=Little Rock, Arkansas
|death_date= {{Death-date and age|June 1968|October 1, 1901}}
|death_place= Little Rock, Arkansas
|position=Forward
Quarterback (football)
|team=Vanderbilt Commodores
|high_school=Little Rock
|college=Vanderbilt University (1920–1923)
|highlights=
Championships
- 3 Southern (football) (1921, 1922, 1923)
Honors
- All-Southern
- Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame
}}
Alvin Euclid "Pep" Bell (October 1, 1901 – June 1968)U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935–2014 [database on-line] Number: 430-07-2987; Issue State: Arkansas; Issue Date: Before 1951. was an American football and basketball player, who later was a football official for 36 years.
Early years
Alvin Bell was born October 1, 1901, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to William Euclid Bell and Josephine Kirst.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uktMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22alvin+bell%22+football|title=A history of the Michael Reasor and allied families|author=Fred Hiner Dale|date=1941|page=221}}
Playing years
Bell won 14 letters at Little Rock High School. He set a then record with 8 touchdowns in a game in 1919.{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/101506/hig_101506059.shtml|title=Arkansas RB scores 10 touchdowns in 73-72 loss|date=October 15, 2006}} Bell went to Vanderbilt University. His best sport was basketball, where he was selected All-Southern. Bell was a starter the first time Vanderbilt met Tennessee in basketball in 1922.{{cite web|url=http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/021109aac.html?wappref=std|title=VU/UT first met in 1922|author=Bill Traughber|date=February 11, 2009}} He was said to have "played a hard floor game and started most of Vanderbilt's rallies." Bell also was captain for the 1923–24 team coached by Josh Cody and featuring Lynn Bomar and Gil Reese.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=flV_WA8hzzoC&q=%22pep+bell%22+|title=Dynamite! 75 Years of Vanderbilt Basketball|pages=44, 244|author=Roy M. Neel}} That team was beaten in the Southern Conference tournament in the quarterfinals by the eventual champion, Jack Cobb and Cartwright Carmichael led North Carolina, 37–20.{{cite web|url=http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/SC/1924.html |title=History of the Early Southern Conference Atlanta Basketball Tournament |accessdate=February 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002055/http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/SC/1924.html |archivedate=March 4, 2016 }} On the football team he was the backup quarterback to Doc Kuhn. At Vanderbilt, Bell was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Official
Bell worked mainly in the Southwest Conference and Southeastern Conference, being referee-in-chief of both.{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=28vmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22alvin+bell%22+football|journal=The Record|volume=80|number=1|author=Sigma Alpha Epsilon|publisher=Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity|date=1960|page=168|title=Alvin Bell}} He officiated in four Sugar Bowl games, three Cotton Bowl games, one Orange Bowl, and eight Blue–Gray Games; and the 1936 U.S. Olympic basketball trials.{{cite web|url=http://www.arksportshalloffame.com/inductees/ |title=Class of 1978 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417195305/http://www.arksportshalloffame.com/inductees/ |archivedate=April 17, 2016 }} Bell was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame posthumously in 1978.
References
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Category:American football quarterbacks
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Category:Forwards (basketball)
Category:Vanderbilt Commodores football players
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