Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year explained
Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year |
Description: | National men's college basketball player of the year |
Country: | United States |
Year: | 1943 (with retroactive awards for 1905–1943) |
Year2: | 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] 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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NOTE: Winners prior to the
1942–43 season were selected retroactively in 1943 and 1957.
Players of the Year
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- Web site: Jon. Scott. Nov 9, 2010. The truth behind the Helms Committee. 4 May 2021.
- News: Alan. Drooz. New Home Being Sought for Southland's Sports Hall of Fame. January 15, 1981. Los Angeles Times. 12. December 4, 2020. Newspapers.com.
- News: John. Hall. So Help Me. August 31, 1976. Los Angeles Times. Part III, p. 2. December 4, 2020. Newspapers.com.
- Raymond Lewis, Verbum Dei Guard, Named Top CIF 'AAA' Basketball Player For '71 Season. March 24, 1971. United Savings–Helms Athletic Foundation. December 4, 2020.
- News: Templeton Makes Public Apology, Rejoins Cardinals for Road Trip. September 15, 1981. Los Angeles Times. Part III, p. 4. December 4, 2020. Newspapers.com.
- Web site: Helms Foundation Player of the Year Winners . sports-reference.com . Sports Reference LLC . 2010 . December 7, 2010 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20140706224220/http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/awards/helms-poy.html . July 6, 2014 .
- Book: Bjarkman, Peter . 1996 . Hoopla: A Century of College Basketball. Masters Press. 1-57028-039-8.
- Web site: Helms Foundation Player of the Year Winners . sports-reference.com . Sports Reference LLC . 2010 . December 7, 2010 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20140706224220/http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/awards/helms-poy.html . July 6, 2014 .
- Book: Bjarkman, Peter . 1996 . Hoopla: A Century of College Basketball. Masters Press. 1-57028-039-8.
- News: Ashford . Ed . April 4, 1950 . Helms Rates Arizin Top Player, CCNY No. 1 Quintet . The Lexington Herald . 6. December 27, 2023 . Newspapers.com. Selection of CCNY as the nation's top team was not difficult after the Beavers made an unprecedented sweep of the NIT and NCAA tournaments..
- News: Associated Press . April 3, 2023 . Thompson, Walton Honored by CSAF . The Times and Democrat . Los Angeles . Orangeburg, South Carolina . December 28, 2023 . 14A . David Thompson of North Carolina State and Bill Walton of UCLA were named college basketball Players of the Year Wednesday by the Citizens Savings Athletic Foundation. It was the third consecutive year Walton was cited..
- News: Honors Wilkins as All-American. April 6, 1977. The Daily Pantagraph. B-3. December 5, 2020. Newspapers.com.
- News: Givens selected as top cager. April 5, 1978. The Lexington Leader. B-2. December 5, 2020. Newspapers.com.
- News: . April 1, 1979 . Bird Is Named Player of Year . 6-C . . Omaha World-Herald . Los Angeles . Omaha, Nebraska . December 28, 2023 . Larry Bird was named college basketball's Player of the Year by the Citizens Savings Athletic Foundation. Sophomore Earvin Johnson of NCAA champion Michigan State finished second in the voting..
- News: Griffth adds two more awards. April 1, 1980. The Kansas City Times. D-4. December 4, 2020. 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..
- News: Anderson. Claude. Getting set for run at the roses. April 7, 1981. The Sun. D-1, D-5. May 2, 2020. 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..
- RALPH SAMPSON, JAMES WORTHY TOP 1982 COLLEGE BASKETBALL ALL-AMERICA TEAM SELECTIONS . April 3, 1982 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20200430172819/https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/downloads/neu:366359?datastream_id=content . April 30, 2020 . live . 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. . May 2, 2020.
- News: Sitton Chosen to A-A Squad. April 12, 1983. Corvallis Gazette Times. 14. December 5, 2020. Newspapers.com.
- News: Jack. Bender. It's summer—and basketball is back. June 29, 1983. B-1. Waterloo Courier. December 5, 2020. 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..