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Cat Thompson
Personal information
Thompson from the 1930 Montanan
Born	(1906-02-10)February 10, 1906 St. George, Utah, U.S.
Died	October 7, 1990(1990-10-07) (aged 84) Idaho Falls, Idaho, U.S.
Listed height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Career information
High school	Dixie (St. George, Utah)
College	Montana State (1926–1930)
Position	Forward
Career highlights and awards
Helms National Player of the Year (1929) Helms National Champion (1929) 4× All-American (1927–1930)


Basketball Hall of Fame
Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame

John Ashworth "Cat" Thompson (February 10, 1906 – October 7, 1990) was an American basketball player.

He won the Utah state championship with Dixie High School team and finished second in the High School National Tournament in 1925. In college, he played for 3 seasons for Montana State, during which time his team had a record of 102–11. In 1929, he won the Helms Foundation Player of the Year award and his team won Helms National Championship . He averaged 15.4 points per game when the average team scored 40 points per game.

He was named All-America in 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930. He scored 1,539 points in 100 career college games he played. He was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1962.

A 2009 ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia named Thompson "one of the five greatest college hoops players of the first half of the 20th century"

References

ESPN (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia - The Complete History of the Men's Game. Ballantine Books. p. 297. ISBN 9780345513922.

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Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year

1905: Steinmetz
1906: Grebenstein
1907: Kinney
1908: Keinath
1909: Schommer
1910: Page
1911: Kiendl
1912: Stangel
1913: Calder
1914: Halstead
1915: Houghton
1916: Levis
1917: Woods
1918: Chandler
1919: Platou
1920: Cann
1921: Williams
1922: Carney
1923: Endacott
1924: Black
1925: Mueller
1926: Cobb
1927: Hanson
1928: Holt
1929: C. Thompson
1930: Hyatt
1931: Carlton
1932: Wooden
1933: Sale
1934: Bennett
1935: Edwards
1936: Moir
1937: Luisetti
1938: Luisetti
1939: Jaworski
1940: Glamack
1941: Glamack
1942: Modzelewski
1943: Senesky
1944: Mikan
1945: Mikan
1946: Kurland
1947: Tucker
1948: Macauley
1949: Lavelli
1950: Arizin
1951: Groat
1952: Lovellette
1953: Houbregs
1954: Gola
1955: B. Russell
1956: B. Russell
1957: Rosenbluth
1958: Baylor
1959: Robertson
1960: Robertson
1961: Lucas
1962: Hogue
1963: Heyman
1964: Hazzard
1965: Bradley & Goodrich
1966: C. Russell
1967: Alcindor
1968: Alcindor
1969: Alcindor
1970: Maravich & Wicks
1971: Carr & Wicks
1972: Walton
1973: Walton
1974: Walton & D. Thompson
1975: D. Thompson
1976: Benson & May
1977: Johnson
1978: Givens
1979: Bird
1980: Griffith
1981: Aguirre
1982: Sampson & Worthy
1983: Olajuwon

v t e 1927 Helms Foundation NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
Syd Corenman George Dixon Vic Hanson John Lorch Ross McBurney John Nyikos Bennie Oosterbaan Gerald Spohn Cat Thompson Harry Wilson

v t e 1928 Helms Foundation NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
Victor Holt Charley Hyatt Alfred James Stretch Murphy Bennie Oosterbaan Sykes Reed Glen Rose Joe Schaaf Ernest Simpson Cat Thompson

v t e 1929 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans
Tom Churchill Vern Corbin Charley Hyatt Charles Murphy Joe Schaaf Cat Thompson

v t e 1930 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans
Charley Hyatt Branch McCracken Stretch Murphy Cat Thompson Frank Ward John Wooden

v t e Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1962
Players	Jack McCracken Harlan Page Barney Sedran Cat Thompson
Contributors	Pop Morgenweck Lynn St. John

Members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Players

Guards	R. Allen Archibald Barnett Beckman Belov Billups Bing Blazejowski Borgmann Braun Brennan Bryant Carter Cervi Cheeks Clayton Cooper-Dyke Cousy Dampier Davies Drexler Dumars Edwards Endacott Frazier Friedman Galis Gervin Ginóbili Goodrich Greer Grentz Guerin Hammon Hanson Hardaway Haynes Holman Hyatt Isaacs Iverson Jeannette Jenkins D. Johnson M. Johnson K. Jones S. Jones Jordan Kidd Lieberman Maravich Marcari Marčiulionis Martin McDermott McGrady D. McGuire Meyers R. Miller Moncrief Monroe Moore C. Murphy Nash Page Parker Payton Petrović Phillip Posey Richmond Robertson Rodgers Roosma J. Russell Schommer Scott Sedran Sharman K. Smith Staley Steinmetz Stockton Swoopes Thomas D. Thompson Timms Vandivier Wade Wanzer Weatherspoon West Westphal Whalen J. White Wilkens Woodard Wooden
Forwards	Arizin Augustus Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bosh Boswell Bradley R. Brown Cash Catchings C. Cooper M. Cooper Cunningham Curry Dalipagić Dandridge Dantley Davis DeBusschere Dehnert Duncan English Erving Foster Fulks Gale Garnett Gasol Gates Gola Hagan Havlicek Hawkins Hayes Haywood Heinsohn Hill Howell Hudson L. Jackson G. Johnson B. Jones King Korać Kukoč Lucas Luisetti K. Malone McClain B. McCracken J. McCracken McGinnis McHale Mikkelsen C. Miller Mullin Nowitzki Pettit Pierce Pippen Pollard Pullins Radja Ramsey Rodman Schayes E. Schmidt O. Schmidt Stokes C. Thompson T. Thompson Twyman Walker Webber N. White Wilkes Wilkins Worthy Yardley
Centers	Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Beaty Bellamy Chamberlain T. Cooper Ćosić Cowens Crawford Daniels DeBernardi Divac Donovan Ewing Gallatin Gilmore Griffith Gruenig Harris-Stewart Houbregs Issel Jackson W. Johnson Johnston M. Krause Kurland Lanier Leslie Lovellette Lapchick Macauley Maciel M. Malone McAdoo Meneghin Mikan Mourning S. Murphy Mutombo Olajuwon O'Neal Parish Reed Risen Robinson B. Russell Sabonis Sampson Semjonova Sikma Thurmond Unseld Wachter Wallace Walton Washington Yao

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