Matty Bell

Matty Bell
Biographical details

Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Born	(1899-02-22)February 22, 1899 Fort Worth, Texas
Died	June 30, 1983(1983-06-30) (aged 84) Dallas, Texas
Playing career
Football
1916–1919	Centre
Position(s)	End
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1920–1921	Haskell Institute
1922	Carroll (WI)
1923–1928	TCU
1929–1933	Texas A&M
1935–1941	SMU
1945–1949	SMU
Basketball
1923–1929	TCU
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1947–1964	SMU
Head coaching record
Overall	143–87–16 (football) 71–41 (basketball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 1 National (1935) 3 SWC (1935, 1947–1948)

College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1955 (profile)

Madison A. "Matty" Bell (February 22, 1899 – June 30, 1983) was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He played for Centre, captain of its 1918 team. He served as the head football coach at the Haskell Institute (1920–1921), Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin (1922),^[1] Texas Christian University (1923–1928), Texas A&M University (1929–1933), and Southern Methodist University (1935–1941, 1945–1949), compiling a career college football record of 143–87–16. His 1935 SMU Mustangs, which have been recognized as a national champion, went 12–0 in the regular season before losing to Stanford in the Rose Bowl. Bell was also the head basketball coach at Texas Christian for six seasons from 1923 to 1929, tallying a mark of 71–41. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1955. After retiring from coaching following the 1949 season, Bell served as the athletic director at Southern Methodist until 1964. He died in 1983 in Dallas, Texas.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	AP^#
Haskell Institute Fighting Indians (Independent) (1920–1921)
1920	Haskell	2–2
1921	Haskell	2–3
Haskell Institute:		4–5
Carroll Pioneers (Independent) (1922)
1922	Carroll	3–4
Carroll:		3–4
TCU Horned Frogs (Southwest Conference) (1923–1928)
1923	TCU	4–5	2–1	3rd
1924	TCU	4–5	1–5	8th
1925	TCU	7–1–1	2–0–1	2nd
1926	TCU	6–1–2	1–1–2	T–3rd
1927	TCU	4–3–2	1–2–2	5th
1928	TCU	8–2	3–2	T–3rd
TCU:		33–17–5	10–11–5
Texas A&M Aggies (Southwest Conference) (1929–1933)
1929	Texas A&M	5–4	2–3	5th
1930	Texas A&M	2–7	0–5	7th
1931	Texas A&M	7–3	3–2	3rd
1932	Texas A&M	4–4–2	1–2–2	4th
1933	Texas A&M	6–3–1	2–2–1	4th
Texas A&M:		24–21–3	8–14–3
SMU Mustangs (Southwest Conference) (1935–1941)
1935	SMU	12–1	6–0	1st	L Rose
1936	SMU	5–4–1	2–3–1	5th
1937	SMU	5–6	2–4	6th
1938	SMU	6–4	4–2	2nd
1939	SMU	6–3–1	4–2	T–2nd
1940	SMU	8–1–1	5–1	T–1st		16
1941	SMU	5–5	2–4	5th
SMU Mustangs (Southwest Conference) (1945–1949)
1945	SMU	5–6	4–2	2nd
1946	SMU	4–5–1	2–4	T–5th
1947	SMU	9–0–2	5–0–1	1st	T Cotton	3
1948	SMU	9–1–1	5–0–1	1st	W Cotton	10
1949	SMU	5–4–1	2–3–1	5th
SMU:		79–40–8	43–25–4
Total:		143–87–16
National championship Conference title Conference division title
^#Rankings from final AP Poll.

References

↑ Carroll University Athletics Season-by-season football results

External links

Matty Bell at the College Football Hall of Fame
Matty Bell at the College Football Data Warehouse
Matty Bell at College Basketball at Sports Reference.com

Haskell Indian Nations Fighting Indians head football coaches

Unknown
Albert E. Herrnstein (1903–1904)
Unknown (1905)
John H. Outland (1906)
Unknown (1907)
John R. Bender (1908–1909)
Unknown (1910)
A. R. Kennedy (1911–1916)
Unknown (1917)
Bud Saunders (1918–1919)
Matty Bell (1920–1921)
Dick Hanley (1922–1926)
Unknown (1927–1928)
William Henry Dietz (1929–1932)
Gus Welch (1933–1934)
John Levi (1935–1936)
No team (1937–1999)
Jerry Tuckwin (2000)
Graham Snelding (2001)
Eric Brock (2002–2009)
Phil Homeratha (2010)
Jimmy Snyder (2011–2012)
Rich Brewer (2013–2014)

Carroll Pioneers head football coaches

Ward A. Wescott (1896)
No team (1897)
J. G. Britton (1898)
John D. Schwender (1899–1900)
Mark D. Nave (1901–1903)
John D. Schwender (1904–1905)
No team (1906–1907)
Harrison McJohnston (1908)
Wilfred C. Bleamaster (1909–1911)
William Davies (1912)
Henry W. Lever (1913)
John Edmund Fries (1914–1918)
Roy E. Haberman (1919)
John Edmund Fries (1920)
C. C. Boone (1921)
Matty Bell (1922)
Phillip Norris Armstrong (1923–1930)
Vincent P. Batha (1931)
Glenn Thistlethwaite (1932–1933)
Elmer A. Lampe (1934–1937)
John W. Breen (1938–1948)
Francis J. McCormick (1949–1957)
Lisle Blackbourn (1958)
Vince DiFrancesca (1959–1971)
Steve Miller (1972–1976)
Robert Larsen (1977)
Mark W. Williams (1978–1981)
Merle Masonholder (1979–2000)
Jeff Voris (2001–2005)
Henny Hiemenz (2006–2010)
Mark Krzykowski (2011– )

TCU Horned Frogs head football coaches

No coach (1896)
Joe Field (1897)
James Morrison (1898)
No coach (1899)
No team (1900)
No coach (1901)
H. E. Hildebrand (1902)
No coach (1903)
C. E. Cronk (1904)
Emory J. Hyde (1905–1907)
Jesse R. Langley (1908–1909)
Kemp Lewis (1910)
Henry W. Lever (1911)
W. T. Stewart (1912)
Fred Cahoon (1913)
Stanley A. Boles (1914)
Ewing Y. Freeland (1915)
Milton Daniel (1916–1917)
E. M. Tipton (1918)
T. D. Hackney (1919)
William L. Driver (1920–1921)
John McKnight (1922)
Matty Bell (1923–1928)
Francis Schmidt (1929–1933)
Dutch Meyer (1934–1952)
Abe Martin (1953–1966)
Fred Taylor (1967–1970)
Jim Pittman (1971)
Billy Tohill (1971–1973)
Jim Shofner (1974–1976)
F. A. Dry (1977–1982)
Jim Wacker (1983–1991)
Pat Sullivan (1992–1997)
Dennis Franchione (1998–2000)
Gary Patterson (2000– )

TCU Horned Frogs basketball head coaches

J. R. Langley (1908–1909)
Oscar Wise (1909–1910)
No team (1910–1913)
Unknown (1913–1914)
F. M. Cahoon (1914–1915)
Ewing Y. Freeland (1915–1916)
Unknown (1916–1919)
T. D. Hackney (1919–1920)
William L. Driver (1920–1922)
John McKnight (1922–1923)
Matty Bell (1923–1929)
Francis Schmidt (1929–1934)
Dutch Meyer (1934–1937)
Mike Brumbelow (1937–1941)
Herbert McQuillan (1941–1948)
Buster Brannon (1948–1967)
Johnny Swaim (1967–1977)
Tim Somerville (1977–1979)
Jim Killingsworth (1979–1987)
Moe Iba (1987–1994)
Billy Tubbs (1994–2002)
Neil Dougherty (2002–2008)
Jim Christian (2008–2012)
Trent Johnson (2012–2016)
Jamie Dixon (2016– )

Texas A&M Aggies head football coaches

F. D. Perkins (1894)
No team (1895)
A. M. Soule & H. W. South (1896)
C. W. Taylor (1897)
H. W. Williams (1898)
W. A. Murray (1899–1901)
J. E. Platt (1902–1904)
Walter E. Bachman (1905–1906)
L. L. Larson (1907)
N. A. Merriam (1908–1909)
Charley Moran (1909–1914)
Edwin Harlan (1915–1916)
Dana X. Bible (1917)
D. V. Graves (1918)
Dana X. Bible (1919–1928)
Matty Bell (1929–1933)
Homer H. Norton (1934–1947)
Harry Stiteler (1948–1950)
Raymond George (1951–1953)
Bear Bryant (1954–1957)
Jim Myers (1958–1961)
Hank Foldberg (1962–1964)
Gene Stallings (1965–1971)
Emory Bellard (1972–1978)
Tom Wilson (1978–1981)
Jackie Sherrill (1982–1988)
R. C. Slocum (1989–2002)
Dennis Franchione (2003–2007)
Gary Darnell # (2007)
Mike Sherman (2008–2011)
Tim DeRuyter # (2011)
Kevin Sumlin (2012– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

SMU Mustangs head football coaches

Ray Morrison (1915–1916)
J. Burton Rix (1917–1920)
W. A. Cunningham, Victor Kelly & J. Burton Rix (1921)
Ewing Y. Freeland & Ray Morrison (1922–1923)
Ray Morrison (1924–1934)
Matty Bell (1935–1941)
Jimmy Stewart (1942–1944)
Matty Bell (1945–1949)
Rusty Russell (1950–1952)
Woody Woodard (1953–1956)
Bill Meek (1957–1961)
Hayden Fry (1962–1972)
Dave Smith (1973–1975)
Ron Meyer (1976–1981)
Bobby Collins (1982–1986)
No team (NCAA suspension, 1987–1988)
Forrest Gregg (1989–1990)
Tom Rossley (1991–1996)
Mike Cavan (1997–2001)
Phil Bennett (2002–2007)
June Jones (2008–2014)
Tom Mason # (2014)
Chad Morris (2015– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

SMU Mustangs athletic directors

J. Burton Rix (1917–1921)
Jimmy Stewart (1935–1945)
Matty Bell (1947–1964)
Hayden Fry (1964–1972)
Dave Smith (1972–1974)
Dick Davis (1974–1978)
Russ Potts (1978–1981)
Bob Hitch (1981–1986)
Dudley Parker # (1986–1987)
Doug Single (1987–1990)
Forrest Gregg (1990–1994)
Bill Lively # (1994)
Jim Copeland (1995–2006)
Brian O'Boyle (2006)
Steve Orsini (2006–2012)
Rick Hart (2012– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim athletic director.

1919 Centre Praying Colonels football—national champions

7 Army Armstrong 11 Bo McMillin 12 Terry Snoddy Matty Bell Ben Cregor Allen Davis Edgar Diddle Clayton Ford William Garrett Bill James Gus King Sully Montgomery Joe Murphy Red Roberts Howard Van Antwerp Red Weaver Edwin Whitnel Head coach: Charley Moran *selected national champion by Sagarin

1935 SMU Mustangs football—national champions

11 Bob Wilson 40 J. C. Wetsel Truman Spain John Sprague Head coach: Matty Bell

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