The Hobey Baker Award is an annual award given to the top National Collegiate Athletic Association men's ice hockey player.
It is named for hockey player and World War I veteran Hobey Baker, who played collegiately at Princeton University and learned the game at St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire).
The original statue for the award was commissioned and awarded by the Decathlon Athletic Club (now defunct) in Bloomington, MN. The model for the statue was Neal Broten of Team USA and the University of Minnesota.
Mr. Broten won the inaugural award and was given a statue of himself.
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