Фонд Хелмса: История спортивных наград и достижений

Sports awards organization

The Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, was a Los Angeles based organization dedicated to the promotion of athletics and sportsmanship. Bill Schroeder founded the organization with Helms and served as its managing director. and soaring.

After Paul Helms' death in 1957, his family continued supporting the organization until 1969, when the bakeries went out of business. United merged with Citizens Savings & Loan in 1973, when the organization became the Citizens Savings Athletic Foundation. When the Helms Foundation dissolved, its historical holdings were absorbed into the collection of the Amateur Athletic Foundation, renamed the LA84 Foundation in 2007.

The Helms World Trophy, originally known as the Helms Award and also referred to as the Helms Trophy, was an annual sporting award established by the Helms Athletic Foundation from 1939 to honor the foremost amateur athlete of each continent of the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Although the Foundation was established in 1936, the awards date back to the 1896, the year of the first Summer Olympics. After the initial committee selection, amateur athletes were nominated by their own countries for consideration by the foundation. Winners were presented with a silver plaque and had their names added to the World Trophy that was located at the Helms Foundation, and subsequently the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles (now known as the LA84 Foundation). Winners can only win the award once.