| Alvin Bell | |
| Weight Lb: | 150 |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1901 |
| Birth Place: | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Death Place: | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Position: | Forward Quarterback (football) |
| Team: | Vanderbilt Commodores |
| High School: | Little Rock |
| College: | Vanderbilt University (1920 - 1923) |
| Highlights: | Championships
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Alvin Euclid "Pep" Bell (October 1, 1901 - June 1968)[1] was an American football and basketball player, who later was a football official for 36 years.
Alvin Bell was born October 1, 1901, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to William Euclid Bell and Josephine Kirst.[2]
Bell won 14 letters at Little Rock High School. He set a then record with 8 touchdowns in a game in 1919.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] On the football team he was the backup quarterback to Doc Kuhn. At Vanderbilt, Bell was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Bell worked mainly in the Southwest Conference and Southeastern Conference, being referee-in-chief of both.[7] 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.[8] [7] Bell was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame posthumously in 1978.[8]