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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 ...
In addition, Bert Bell obtained the first license ever issued in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to conduct a Sunday game. As Eagles’ General Manager in 1935, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Just nine men who had "crowded into Bert Bell's hotel room, shucked their jackets and cleared sitting room on beds and bureaus," Robert Lipsyte wrote in the New York Times in 1968.
Bert Bell was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 1963. Bell, a former quarterback at the University of Pennsylvania, loved his home state so much, being a part of ...
PHILADELPHIA -- NFL teams will select 257 college prospects during the draft, which gets underway on Thursday. Thousands of fans will be in attendance in Detroit. Millions more will watch at home.