Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year Award

The Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year Award was a men's college basketball award, given each year to the nation's most outstanding player as voted on by the Helms Athletic Foundation. It was the premier college basketball MVP award from its inception until the creation of the Naismith Award, and was no longer awarded after the 1979 season.

1905	Christian Steinmetz	Wisconsin	F
1906	George Grebenstein	Dartmouth	F
1907	Gilmore Kinney	Yale	F
1908	Charles Keinath	Pennsylvania	F
1909	John Schommer	Chicago
1910	Harlan "Pat" Page	Chicago	G
1911	Ted Kiendl	Columbia	F
1912	Otto Stangel	Wisconsin	F
1913	Eddie Calder	Saint Lawrence	F
1914	Gil Halstead	Cornell	C
1915	Ernest Houghton	Union (NY)
1916	George Levis	Wisconsin	F
1917	Ray Woods	Illinois	G
1918	Bill Chandler	Wisconsin	C
1919	Erling Platou	Minnesota	G
1920	Howard Cann	New York
1921	George Williams	Missouri	C
1922	Charles Carney	Illinois	C
1923	Paul Endacott	Kansas	G
1924	Charlie T. Black	Kansas	G
1925	Earl Mueller	Colorado College	C
1926	Jack Cobb	North Carolina	F
1927	Vic Hanson	Syracuse	F
1928	Victor Holt	Oklahoma	C
1929	John "Cat" Thompson	Montana State	F
1930	Chuck Hyatt	Pittsburgh	G
1931	Bart Carlton	Ada Teachers
1932	John Wooden	Purdue	G
1933	Forest Sale	Kentucky	F/C
1934	Wesley Bennett	Westminster (PA)	C
1935	Leroy Edwards	Kentucky	C
1936	John Moir	Notre Dame	F
1937	Hank Luisetti	Stanford	F
1938	Hank Luisetti (2)	Stanford	F
1939	Chet Jaworski	Rhode Island	F
1940	George Glamack	North Carolina	C
1941	George Glamack	North Carolina	C
1942	Stan Modzelewski	Rhode Island	G/F
1943	George Senesky	Saint Joseph's (PA)	G
1944	George Mikan	DePaul	C
1945	George Mikan (2)	DePaul	C
1946	Bob Kurland	Oklahoma A&M	C
1947	Gerald Tucker	Oklahoma	C
1948	Ed Macauley	Saint Louis	C
1949	Tony Lavelli	Yale	F
1950	Paul Arizin	Villanova	F
1951	Dick Groat	Duke	G
1952	Clyde Lovellette	Kansas	F/C
1953	Bob Houbregs	Washington	C
1954	Tom Gola	La Salle	G/F
1955	Bill Russell	San Francisco	C
1956	Bill Russell (2)	San Francisco	C
1957	Lennie Rosenbluth	North Carolina	F
1958	Elgin Baylor	Seattle	F/C
1959	Oscar Robertson	Cincinnati	G
1960	Oscar Robertson (2)	Cincinnati	G
1961	Jerry Lucas	Ohio State	F/C
1962	Paul Hogue	Cincinnati	C
1963	Art Heyman	Duke	G
1964	Walt Hazzard	Cal-Los Angeles	G
1965	Bill Bradley Gail Goodrich	Princeton Cal-Los Angeles	G/F G
1966	Cazzie Russell	Michigan	G/F
1967	Lew Alcindor	Cal-Los Angeles	C
1968	Lew Alcindor (2)	Cal-Los Angeles	C
1969	Lew Alcindor (3)	Cal-Los Angeles	C
1970	Pete Maravich Sidney Wickes	Louisiana State Cal-Los Angeles	G F/C
1971	Austin Carr Sidney Wickes (2)	Notre Dame Cal-Los Angeles	G F/C
1972	Bill Walton	Cal-Los Angeles	C
1973	Bill Walton (2)	Cal-Los Angeles	C
1974	David Thompson	North Carolina State	G/F
1975	David Thompson (2)	North Carolina State	G/F
1976	Kent Benson Scott May	Indiana Indiana	C F
1977	Marques Johnson	Cal-Los Angeles	G
1978	Jack Givens	Kentucky	G/F
1979	Larry Bird	Indiana State	F