Helms Athletic Foundation

The Helms Athletic Foundation was an athletic foundation based in Los Angeles, founded in 1936 by Bill Schroeder and Paul Helms. It put together a panel of experts^{[citation needed]} to select National Champion teams and make All-America team selections in a number of college sports including football and basketball. The panel met annually^{[citation needed]} to vote on a National Champion until 1982 and retroactively ranked football teams dating back to 1883 and basketball back to 1901. The Helms Foundation also operated a Hall of Fame for both college sports.

Besides collegiate athletics, the Foundation operated halls of fame for professional football, Major League Baseball, the Pacific Coast League, basketball, golf, tennis, swimming, auto Rracing and track and field.

After Paul Helms' death in 1957, United Savings and Loan became the Helms Foundation's benefactor and when United merged with Citizen Savings Bank in 1973, the Athletic Foundation became known as the Citizens Savings Athletic Foundation. It was again renamed in 1982 when First Interstate Bank assumed sponsorship for the foundation's final year. Paul Helms started Helms Bakery in Southern California, which was the official bread (Helms Olympic bread) of the 1932 Olympics. Helms Hall was located on 8760 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles CA, 90034. The Helms Olympics neon sign still can be seen on top of the building.

When the Helms Foundation dissolved, its historical holdings were absorbed into the collection of the Amateur Athletic Foundation, renamed the LA84 Foundation in 2007.

National champions

Basketball

From 1939, when the NCAA Tournament started, the Helms and NCAA Division I champions were the same, except for 1939, 1940, 1944, and 1954 when Oregon, Indiana, Utah, and La Salle respectively won the tournament. Some schools claim a Helms nomination as a national championship.

Year	Team	Record
1901	Yale	10-4
1902	Minnesota	11-0
1903	Yale	15-1
1904	Columbia	17-1
1905	Columbia	19-1
1906	Dartmouth	16-2
1907	Chicago	22-2
1908	Chicago	21-2
1909	Chicago	12-0
1910	Columbia	11-1
1911	St John's-NY	14-0
1912	Wisconsin	15-0
1913	Navy	9-0
1914	Wisconsin	15-0
1915	Illinois	16-0
1916	Wisconsin	20-1
1917	Washington St	25-1
1918	Syracuse	16-1
1919	Minnesota	13-0
1920	Penn	22-1
1921	Penn	21-2
1922	Kansas	16-2
1923	Kansas	17-1
1924	North Carolina	26-0
1925	Princeton	21-2
1926	Syracuse	19-1
1927	Notre Dame	19-1
1928	Pittsburgh	21-0
1929	Montana St	36-2
1930	Pittsburgh	23-2
1931	Northwestern	16-1
1932	Purdue	17-1
1933	Kentucky	21-3
1934	Wyoming	26-3
1935	NYU	19-1
1936	Notre Dame	22-2-1
1937	Stanford	25-2
1938	Temple	23-2
1939	LIU-Brooklyn	24-0
1940	USC	20-3
1941	Wisconsin	20-3
1942	Stanford	27-4
1943	Wyoming	31-2
1944	Army	15-0
1945	Oklahoma A&M	27-4
1946	Oklahoma A&M	31-2
1947	Holy Cross	27-3
1948	Kentucky	36-3
1949	Kentucky	32-2
1950	CCNY	24-5
1951	Kentucky	32-2
1952	Kansas	28-3
1953	Indiana	23-3
1954	Kentucky	25-0
1955	San Francisco	28-1
1956	San Francisco	29-0
1957	North Carolina	32-0
1958	Kentucky	23-6
1959	California	25-4
1960	Ohio State	25-3
1961	Cincinnati	27-3
1962	Cincinnati	29-2
1963	Loyola-IL	29-2
1964	UCLA	30-0
1965	UCLA	28-2
1966	Texas Western	28-1
1967	UCLA	30-0
1968	UCLA	29-1
1969	UCLA	29-1
1970	UCLA	28-2
1971	UCLA	29-1
1972	UCLA	30-0
1973	UCLA	30-0
1974	NC State	30-1
1975	UCLA	28-3
1976	Indiana	32-0
1977	Marquette	25-7
1978	Kentucky	30-2
1979	Michigan State	26-6
1980	Louisville	33-3
1981	Indiana	26-9
1982	North Carolina	32-2
Source

Football

Year	Team	Record
1883	Yale	8-0
1884	Yale	8-0-1
1885	Princeton	9-0
1886	Yale	9-0-1
1887	Yale	9-0
1888	Yale	13-0
1889	Princeton	10-0
1890	Harvard	11-0
1891	Yale	13-0
1892	Yale	13-0
1893	Princeton	11-0
1894	Yale	16-0
1895	Pennsylvania	14-0
1896	Princeton	10-0-1
1897	Pennsylvania	15-0
1898	Harvard	11-0
1899	Harvard	10-0-1
1900	Yale	12-0
1901	Michigan	11-0
1902	Michigan	11-0
1903	Princeton	11-0
1904	Pennsylvania	12-0
1905	Chicago	11-0
1906	Princeton	9-0-1
1907	Yale	9-0-1
1908	Pennsylvania	11-0-1
1909	Yale	10-0
1910	Harvard	8-0-1
1911	Princeton	8-0-2
1912	Harvard	9-0
1913	Harvard	9-0
1914	Army	9-0
1915	Cornell	9-0
1916	Pittsburgh	8-0
1917	Georgia Tech	9-0
1918	Pittsburgh	4-1
1919	Harvard	9-0-1
1920	California	9-0
1921	Cornell	8-0
1922	Cornell	8-0
1923	Illinois	8-0
1924	Notre Dame	10-0
1925	Alabama	10-0
1926	Alabama Stanford	9-0-1 10-0-1
1927	Illinois	7-0-1
1928	Georgia Tech	10-0
1929	Notre Dame	9-0
1930	Notre Dame	10-0
1931	USC	10-1
1932	USC	10-0
1933	Michigan	7-0-1
1934	Minnesota	8-0
1935	Minnesota	8-0
1936	Minnesota	7-1
1937	California	10-0-1
1938	TCU	11-0
1939	Texas A&M	11-0
1940	Stanford	10-0
1941	Minnesota	8-0
1942	Wisconsin	8-1-1
1943	Notre Dame	9-1
1944	Army	9-0
1945	Army	9-0
1946	Army Notre Dame	9-0-1 8-0-1
1947	Notre Dame Michigan	9-0 10-0
1948	Michigan	9-0
1949	Notre Dame	10-0
1950	Oklahoma	10-1
1951	Michigan State	9-0
1952	Michigan State	9-0
1953	Notre Dame	9-0-1
1954	UCLA Ohio State	9-0 10-0
1955	Oklahoma	11-0
1956	Oklahoma	10-0
1957	Auburn	10-0
1958	LSU	11-0
1959	Syracuse	11-0
1960	Washington	10-1
1961	Alabama	11-0
1962	USC	11-0
1963	Texas	11-0
1964	Arkansas	11-0
1965	Michigan State	10-1
1966	Notre Dame Michigan State	9-0-1 9-0-1
1967	USC	10-1
1968	Ohio State	10-0
1969	Texas	11-0
1970	Nebraska	11-0-1
1971	Nebraska	13-0
1972	USC	12-0
1973	Notre Dame	11-0
1974	Oklahoma USC	11-0 10-1-1
1975	Ohio State Oklahoma	11-1 11-1
1976	Pittsburgh	12-0
1977	Notre Dame	11-1
1978	Alabama Oklahoma USC	11-1 11-1 12-1
1979	Alabama	12-0
1980	Georgia	12-0
1981	Clemson	12-0
1982	Penn State SMU	11-1 11-0-1
Source

See also

• AP Poll
• Bowl Championship Series
• Coaches Poll
• Dickinson System
• Grantland Rice Award

• Harris Interactive College Football Poll
• Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year
• Mythical National Championship
• NCAA Division I-A national football championship
• Helms Bakery