Hobey Baker Award: History, winners, selection process

The Hobey Baker Memorial Award, known as the most prestigious award in higher education hockey, recognizes the best hockey player NCAA di in the country every year. Hockey skills and statistics are not the only criteria because Hobey is awarded the game that most embodies different qualities, including sports behavior and character. The Macklin Celebrini Award at the University of Boston in 2024 won the prize.

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Let’s dive into the history and process of choosing the prize along with the history of the winners.

History of Hobey Baker award

On the official website you can read everything about Hobey Baker Award History hereWhich tells the whole story of creating a prize. Here are some of the key facts in the history of the Hobey Baker Award:

• Creating the Hobey Baker Award was at the head of Charles R. Bard, who was the CEO DECATHLON ATHLETIC CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota, And it was officially founded in 1981, years after Hobey’s death.
• The price was inspired by the Wooden Award Basketball’s Wooden Award (which was in turn modeled after the Heisman Award College Football).

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• The namesake were considered four hockey players. Bard was considered by Frankie Bimek, Moos-Goheen and John Mariucci, but it was Hobart Amory Baker, who was most interested in Bard.
• The First Prize Hobey Baker Award was introduced to the Neal of Neal Broten 20 March 1981
• In 1991 Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation It has been established as a non -profit company that has been entrusted with the price of the price and still runs this process.

Who was Hobey Baker?

Hobey Baker was not alive to create this award in his honor, so it is clear that his credentials and personal history had to be exceptional to excel from all the giants of hockey history. On the official website you can find out everything you need to know about Hobey Baker herewho has a comprehensive bio on a man whose name would become famous hockey fans everywhere. Here are a few of the tops:

• Hockey career Hobey Baker Started at St. Paul’s School in Concord in New Hampshire. The school was reportedly one of the first to introduce ice hockey just eight years before arriving from Hobey.
• Hobey continued his career in Princeton’s universitywhere he led his team to record 27-7 and three Intercollegiate League Championships. He scored four goals for the game and was only penalized twice in his college career.
• Once he played every second out of the 73 -minute game against Harvard, while other players continued to replace.
• Hobey has been known all the time of his college and amateur hockey career to visit the dressing room of the enemy team after each game to shook his hands
• Hobey was during World War II commissioned as a lieutenant in the army. As a member of Lafayette Escadrille, he was with the first group of American pilots sent to France. Baker was attributed to a reduction in three enemy aircraft and appreciated Croix de Guerre.
• After the war, but before returning home from France, Hobey went to the last joyful ride before his engine ended and the plane crashed. Baker died in an ambulance later, at the age of 26.

Trophy

Hobey Baker Trophy is 16 inches high and is made of 40 pounds of bronze and etched acrylic. The original trophy was introduced at the first Hobey Baker Memorial Award in 1981. The foundation creates two trophies each year – one for the winners of the Hobey Baker Award and another trophy for the winner. The original trophy Hobey Baker is exhibited in the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul in Minnesota.

The trophy was Suggested by sculptor Bill MackA native of Minnesota. To propose a trophy, Mack first had to look for a model and finally landed on the hockey player Steve Christoff. Christoff was Standout for the University of Minnesota and later played for the 1980 Olympic hockey team and in the NHL.

Before it was decided that the final position was decided to stop quickly, more than 50 positions were analyzed. Christoff was photographed in this pose from different angles and these photographs were divided to create a coal drawing. From this drawing he created a mack figure of the stick, covered it in the dirt and baked the design in the oven. Of these, the completed bronze statue remained the same and recognized around the nation.

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Selection

According to the Hobey Baker Memorial Award web pages exist Four criteria Used to consider the nominated Hobey Baker Memorial Award:

1. The power of character, on and off the ice
2. Post to the integrity of the team and excellent skills in all stages of the game
3. Scholastic success and sports behavior
4. Compliance with all NCAA rules, including a full -time student on an accredited university or university and completing 50 or more seasons

They are three steps involved in the price selection process. First, the head coaches of the NCAA di Ice schools nominate the first three players in their relevant leagues and the three best players in the nation. Hockey hockey fans can also participate Voting online During this step. Price Waterhouse Coopers Accounting Counts these voices and is announced by the 10 best finalists.

The vote for “Trick Hobey Hat Trick” begins to narrow the field from the price 10 finalists to three. The winner is then selected from this trio of players. The vote in this step of the process is the Hobey Baker Memorial Award. The Committee is a “geographically balanced group of 29 individuals representing press and electronic sports media, college hockey coaches and officials and NHL Scouts”. In this step of the process is also a wheel of voting fans.

The winner of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award is announced at the national television ceremony.

Recipients award Hobey Baker Award

To date, 44 recipients were Hobey Baker Memorial Award. Thirty -two attackers, nine defenders and three goalies won the award.

Mark and Scott Fusco are the only brothers who were both named the winner of the Hobey Baker Award, both of the Harvard University of 1983 and 1986. Minnesota Duluth has the strongest performance of any NCAA institution and boasts six recipients in their history.

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Below you will find the whole history of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award:

Higher School Winners Most Hobey Baker

Information from Hobeybaker.com.