Clyde Helmer

Clyde Helmer
Personal information
Date of birth	22 April 1916
Date of death	24 April 1945 (aged 29)
Place of death	New Guinea
Original team(s)	Mooroopna
Height/Weight	184 cm / 80 kg
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1937–1941 1942 Total -	Geelong Melbourne	71 (137) 02 00(3) 73 (140)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1942 season.

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

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