Born March 7, 1928, Columbus, Mo.

The long-time head track and field coach at Indiana University, Sam Bell has developed a reputation as not only an outstanding track coach but as an excellent meet director. Since taking over at Indiana, he has produced teams that have won 23 men's and four women's Big 10 team titles. On 18 occasions, Bell's teams have placed in the top 10 in NCAA championships. Individually, he has coached more than 90 All-American athletes, including Olympians Bob Kennedy, Jim Spivey, Mark Deady, Sunder Nix, Terry Brahm, Robert Cannon and Albert Robinson. At the same time, he has been meet director or technical director of some of the top meets in the world. He was a U.S. Olympic team assistant coach in 1976 and was the head coach of the 1979 World Cup team. A 1950 graduate of Doane College in Nebraska, Bell entered the college coach ing ranks in 1958 at Oregon State University where his 1961 cross country team won the NCAA title. In 1965, he became the head coach at the University of California and was there four years before moving to Indiana. Bell also has served on numerous AAU and TAC committees and from 1976 to 1980.