Eric Allen (30), Brian Dawkins (61), Jeremiah Trotter (72), Nick Foles (88), and Harold Carmichael (161) were all named as ...

Bert Bell was the son of Philadelphia blue bloods who rejected his given first name, de Benneville, and the high society into which he was born. He was a World War I medic whose unit’s heroism ...

Bert Bell died a few yards from a football field, an appropriate ending for a man who spent a good portion of his life running the NFL, owning the Philadelphia Eagles, coaching the Eagles, selling ...

Upton Bell, who will speak at the Oct. 25 dedication of the statue of his father, former NFL commissioner Bert Bell, has not lived on the Main Line since 1961. But his long-ago memories of living ...

Bert Bell, then new on the job as NFL commissioner, dealt swiftly and strongly with what could have been the league’s grand undoing in its shaky days just after World War II. The issue Bell had ...

Bert Bell Sr., a Hall of Fame commissioner, whose father was attorney general of Pennsylvania and whose brother, Jack, was a state supreme court justice, cleaned up betting scandals in the NFL ...

Bert Bell then volunteered for the military in World War I, receiving several decorations, before returning to Penn. According to Upton Bell, his father and mother, ...

Bert Bell purchased a team called the Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1933 which he renamed the Philadelphia Eagles with money he borrowed from his wife who was a famous actress at the time. The ...

In 1933 it took well over a day to traverse the 1,666.7 miles of railroad track from Minneapolis to Philadelphia. For Bert Bell the trip seemed a lot longer.Then the owner of the lowly Philadelphia… ...

Bell’s impact remains visible in Narberth, where a historic marker honors his contributions. As NFL commissioner from 1946 to 1959, Bell elevated the sport’s standards, leaving an indelible ...

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 "Blackie" the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bert Bell was not the first NFL commissioner. He was, however, the first to make a major impact on pro football. To call Bell the father of the NFL draft would be accurate.