Robert "Bunny" Bell was a footballer who played for Tranmere Rovers and Everton

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On Boxing Day

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 1935, he scored nine times in Tranmere's 13-4 defeat of Oldham Athletic, at that time an English record

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. He might have made it 10, but missed a penalty. He scored 57 goals for Tranmere during the 1933–34

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 season, and ended his Tranmere career with 104 goals in 114 games. Bell then signed for Everton, but the outbreak of World War II

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effectively ended his career.