Rider University
Clair Bee Athletes of the Year
Clair Bee was an accounting professor at Rider and founded the varsity athletics program in 1929. Rider's first director of athletics, Bee coached football, basketball and baseball at Rider, and earned national prominence as a basketball innovator, inventing the shot clock, and suggesting the three-second rule. He is also the author of the famous Chip Hilton book series. Bee was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA. He was a charter member of the Rider Athletics Hall of Fame, and a trophy named in his honor is presented annually to Rider's Athletes of the Year.
