Clyde Helmer

Clyde Helmer
Personal information
Date of birth	22 April 1916
Date of death	24 April 1945(1945-04-24) (aged 29)
Place of death	New Guinea
Original team(s)	Mooroopna
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1937–1941	Geelong	71 (137)
1942	Melbourne	02 00(3)
Total		73 (140)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1942.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Clyde Helmer (22 April 1916 – 24 April 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A forward, Helmer could torpedo punt on either foot and in 1938, just his second league season, topped Geelong's goalkicking with 74 goals. In a game that year against Fitzroy he kicked a career best eight goals. He crossed to Melbourne in 1942 but could only manage two games.

During World War II Helmer was a Temporary Warrant Officer in the Australian Army and lost his life in New Guinea after a bomb he was trying to defuse exploded.

See also

• List of Victorian Football League players who died in active service

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clyde Helmer.

• Clyde Helmer's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.