Harry Bell (footballer, born 1924)

{{short description|English footballer}}

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{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Harry Bell

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| fullname = Henry Davey Bell

| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|10|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Castletown, County Durham, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|4|22|1924|10|14|df=y}}

| death_place = Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

| position = Wing half

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 =

| years1 = – | clubs1 = Hylton Colliery Welfare

| years2 = 1946–1955 | clubs2 = Middlesbrough | caps2 = 290 | goals2 = 9

| years3 = 1955–1959 | clubs3 = Darlington | caps3 = 126 | goals3 = 19

| years4 = – | clubs4 = Spennymoor United

| manageryears1 = – | managerclubs1 = Spennymoor United

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Henry Davey "Harry" Bell (14 October 1924 – 22 April 2014) was an English professional footballer, born in Castletown, County Durham, who made more than 400 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half for Middlesbrough and Darlington.{{cite web|last=Sampson |first=Lindsey |url=http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/harry-bell-tributes-tough-tackling-former-7031066 |title=Harry Bell Tributes as tough-tackling former Boro midfielder dies aged 89 |publisher=Gazette Live |date=2014-04-25 |accessdate=2014-05-04}}{{cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player3/harrybell.html |title=Harry Bell |work=UK A–Z Transfers |publisher=Neil Brown |accessdate=10 January 2010}} He went on to manage Spennymoor United, taking the club from the first qualifying round of the 1963–64 FA Amateur Cup to the fourth round proper.{{cite news |url=http://www.picturespennymoor.co.uk/A178.html |title=Spennymoor Youngsters Aim For The Top |first=Norman |last=Ackland |magazine=Charles Buchan's Football Monthly |date=July 1964 |format=reprint |publisher=Picture Spennymoor History |accessdate=10 January 2010 |archive-date=3 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203134113/http://www.picturespennymoor.co.uk/A178.html |url-status=dead }} Bell had a long cricket career with Durham County Cricket Club playing in the Minor Counties Championship.{{cite web |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/106/106444/106444.html |title=Harry Bell |publisher=Cricket Archive |accessdate=10 January 2010}}

His nephew Norman Bell played professional football for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers in the 1970s and 1980s.{{cite web |url=http://www.wolvesheroes.com/2009/05/14/the-many-moves-of-norman-bell/ |title=The Many Moves Of Norman Bell |work=Wolves Heroes |date=14 May 2009 |accessdate=10 January 2010}}