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President Dick Bell
Dick Bell’s background
and accomplishments in football are numerous and outstanding.
As a football player, as a football coach/recruiter and as a
football executive, Dick has the reputation as “a person who makes
things happen.”
The Player
A native of
Massachusetts, Dick was the MVP of Dean Junior College in 1974 and went on
to become a three time All Conference Player and All-American at the
University of Rhode Island as a defensive end.
Dick was also chosen to represent Team USA in the 1979 Can-Am Bowl
Game which pitted the United States versus Canada in a nationally
televised game. Dick started
and helped the American squad to a resounding victory.
After his college career ended, Dick was signed by the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers and later signed with the San Diego Chargers.
Dick was inducted into the Dean Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991.
Photo shows Dick (2nd from left, kneeling) during his playing days for
Team USA
The Coach
Dick has coached at all
levels, from Pop Warner to professional and the one constant is success.
Professional
– Led the Bay State Titans to the Eastern Championship of the minor
league football system in 1991.
The
Titans had 21 former or future NFL players on its 45 man roster and
current Jacksonville Jaguars Assistant, Ray "Sugar Bear" Hamilton, coached for Dick.
College
– As linebacker coach for Division 1AA Tennessee-Chattanooga of the
powerful Southern Conference players under Dick’s tutelage earned either
first or second team All Conference in each of his years there.
The ability to recruit is what truly separated Dick from the crowd
as he personally signed a staggering 70% of the recruiting classes during
his tenure. With help
from the players he signed, Chattanooga went from a losing to a winning
program within two years.
High
School – As the head coach of
Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, Dick guided a
team that had a 1-32 record the previous three seasons to a 9-2 record in
his first year. That
turnaround was recognized in a state with over 300 schools as one of the
greatest in history. Six of
the players on that team went on to Division 1 or 1AA Programs and none
had been recruited at all prior to Dick’s arrival.
Pop
Warner – As a volunteer head
coach for the Capital City Steelers in Raleigh, North Carolina, Dick led
the team to two consecutive mid-south region (5 states) Championships and
two appearances in the Pop Warner National Championships. Fourteen of the players on those teams ended up being high
school starters and eight of them played in college.
