Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year
Awarded for | the national men's college basketball player of the year |
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Country | United States |
History | |
First award | 1944 (including retroactive awards for 1905–1943) |
Final award | 1983 |
The Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year was an annual men's college basketball award given to the most outstanding men′s player in the United States. It was awarded by the Helms Athletic Foundation, an organization founded in 1936 by Bill Schroeder and Paul Helms, the owner of Helms Bakery in Los Angeles.[1]
The award was first presented in 1944, when the Helms Athletic Foundation announced Schroeder′s player-of-the-year selection for the 1943–44 season as well as his retroactive picks for the player of the year for each season from 1904–05 to 1942–43.[1] Schroeder then began selecting a player of the year annually.
After Paul Helms' death in 1957, his family continued supporting the foundation until 1969, when the bakeries went out of business.[2] Schroeder found a new benefactor in United Savings & Loan,[2] and the foundation's name became United Savings–Helms Athletic Foundation.[3][4] United merged with Citizens Savings & Loan in 1973, when the foundation became the Citizens Savings Athletic Foundation.[2] It was again renamed when First Interstate Bank assumed sponsorship and was known as the First Interstate Bank Athletic Foundation in the award's final years after 1981.[5][6] Schroeder made his last player-of-the-year selection for the 1982–83 season, after which the award came to an end.
Key
† | Co-Players of the Year |
* | Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Player of the Year award at that point |
NOTE: Winners prior to the 1943–44 season were selected retroactively in 1944.
Winners
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Christian_Steinmetz.jpg/150px-Christian_Steinmetz.jpg)
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/John_Wooden_Purdue.jpg/150px-John_Wooden_Purdue.jpg)
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/George_Mikan_1945.jpeg/150px-George_Mikan_1945.jpeg)
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Lew_Alcindor_Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar_UCLA.jpg/150px-Lew_Alcindor_Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar_UCLA.jpg)
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Larry_Bird_ISU.jpg/150px-Larry_Bird_ISU.jpg)
See also
References
- ^ a b Scott, Jon (Nov 9, 2010). "The truth behind the Helms Committee". Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ^ a b c Drooz, Alan (January 15, 1981). "New Home Being Sought for Southland's Sports Hall of Fame". Los Angeles Times. p. 12. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Hall, John (August 31, 1976). "So Help Me". Los Angeles Times. Part III, p. 2. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Raymond Lewis, Verbum Dei Guard, Named Top CIF 'AAA' Basketball Player For '71 Season" (Press release). United Savings–Helms Athletic Foundation. March 24, 1971. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ a b "RALPH SAMPSON, JAMES WORTHY TOP 1982 COLLEGE BASKETBALL ALL-AMERICA TEAM SELECTIONS" (Press release). First Interstate Bank Athletic Foundation. April 3, 1982. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
Virginia's 7' 4" center, RALPH SAMPSON, and North Carolina's 6• 9" forward, JAMES WORTHY, have been chosen College Basketball's Co-Players of the Year for the 1982 season, by First Interstate Bank Athletic Foundation.
- ^ "Templeton Makes Public Apology, Rejoins Cardinals for Road Trip". Los Angeles Times. September 15, 1981. Part III, p. 4. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Helms Foundation Player of the Year Winners". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2010. Archived from the original on July 6, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ^ Bjarkman, Peter (1996). Hoopla: A Century of College Basketball. Masters Press. ISBN 1-57028-039-8.
- ^ "Honors Wilkins as All-American". The Daily Pantagraph. April 6, 1977. p. B-3. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Givens selected as top cager". The Lexington Leader. April 5, 1978. p. B-2. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "AHL Game Is Postponed by Nuclear Plant Accident". Los Angeles Times. April 1, 1979. Part III, p. 4. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Griffth adds two more awards". The Kansas City Times. April 1, 1980. p. D-4. Retrieved December 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
Griffith has also been named college basketball player of the year by Citizens Savings Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles an award that goes back to 1905.
- ^ Anderson, Claude (April 7, 1981). "Getting set for run at the roses". The Sun. pp. D-1, D-5. Retrieved May 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
DePaul's Mark Aguirre was player-of-the-year and UC Irvine's Kevin Magee (the only other Southlander selected) made it at a forward.
- ^ "Sitton Chosen to A-A Squad". Corvallis Gazzete Times. April 12, 1983. p. 14. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bender, Jack (June 29, 1983). "It's summer—and basketball is back". Waterloo Courier. p. B-1. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
And only the Athletic Foundation funded by First Interstate Bank (formerly the Helms awards) picked Akeem Abdul Olajuwon of NCAA runnerup Houston as its player of the year.
External links
- Helms Foundation Player of the Year Winner at Sports-Reference.com