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Pistol Pete Maravich, the Louisiana State University scoring whiz and the new all-time National Collegiate Athletic Association point leader, was honored by the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association at the Royal Orleans Hotel.

James J. Corbett Awards

For the second straight year, Maravich was selected as the outstanding college athlete in Louisiana to receive the Jim Corbett Memorial Award, given by the Sugar Bowl annually in memory of the late LSU athletic director.
 
Winner of the award in 1968, Maravich is the second LSU athlete to be honored as Tiger quarterback Nelson Stokley was the first Jim Corbett Award honoree in 1967. Maravich was selected by a committee of sports writers and sportscasters from a field of 17 college athletes.
 
Sports editor Art Burke of the New Orleans States-Item headed the final section committee this year.
 
During his three years at LSU, Maravich established numerous National Collegiate Athletic Association and Southeastern Conference records.
 
Among these are NCAA records for most career points, both an NCAA and SEC record, most field goal attempts in a single season, and his 30 free throws in 31 attempts against Oregon State on Dec. 22, 1969, is also an all-time single-game record.
 
He is the first player in NCAA major-college history to score more than 1,000 points in a season three successive years. Other NCAA records include top two-year point totals, most points scored as a sophomore, most points scored as a junior, most points scored at the end of the junior season, and widest scoring margin in a single season.
 
The 6-5 senior has practically demolished the record books of the tough SEC. Among his single-game records in conference play are most points (69), and most field goals (26) against Alabama and Vanderbilt, and most field goal attempts (57) against Vandy and ’Bama.
 
[Reprinted from the 1971 Sugar Bowl History Book]