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The resident shot Bell was a cheerleader for the big football program, especially driving a truck helmet Penn campus the day before a game to encourage students to drop attacks. On match day, he often had a piece of tape stuck to his forehead with a report of a single word to the team, and wore all 10 of its Ivy League championship rings.
As the years and Coach "spirit", he gave all sorts of words to launch the player, such as "You can still mean a Harvard man - but you can not say much," and "Far above Cayuga's waters, there is an awful smell - Cornell."
But it was also encouraging messages for the players, the most in favor of which were "doing better than your best" and "back to back."
He earned the nickname of the lake, because every time he comes to someone, "he said," Dan Staffieri, as in Lake Erie.
Penn School Al Bagnoli presented Wednesday with its 2009 Ivy League Championship Staffieri Architecture at his home. "We had a great time visiting with him," said Bagnoli. "We were there for about an hour. It was very stylish, had a great memory.When I came to work this morning, I discovered that he had died, and studying brown to myself, I have not seen this coming.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer