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Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year

Defunct U.S. men's college basketball player award (1943–1983) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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]

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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 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.

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Co-Players of the Year
Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Helms Player of the Year award at that point

Winners

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Winners prior to the 1942–43 season were selected retroactively in 1943[7] and 1957.

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Christian Steinmetz, Wisconsin, 1905
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George Levis, Wisconsin, 1916
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Bill Chandler, Wisconsin, 1918
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Paul Endacott, Kansas, 1923
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Charlie T. Black, Kansas, 1924
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Jack Cobb, North Carolina, 1926
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Cat Thompson, Montana State, 1929
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Charley Hyatt, Pittsburgh, 1930
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George Mikan, DePaul, 1944 and 1945
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Tony Lavelli, Yale, 1949
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Bill Russell, San Francisco, 1955 and 1956
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Lennie Rosenbluth, North Carolina, 1957
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Cazzie Russell, Michigan, 1966
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Lew Alcindor,[b] UCLA, 1967 through 1969
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Austin Carr, Notre Dame, 1971
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David Thompson, NC State, 1974 and 1975
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Mark Aguirre, DePaul, 1981
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James Worthy, North Carolina, 1982
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  • a Retroactive awards for 1905 to 1943.
  • b Lew Alcindor later changed his named to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.[22]
  • c Olajuwon later changed his first name's spelling from Akeem to Hakeem to use the original Arabic spelling.[23]
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