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George Leon Nattin, Jr. (February 25, 1940 – September 28, 2014), was a businessman from Bossier City, Louisiana, who was a star basketball player for the LSU Tigers from 1958 to 1962. He was the only child of George Leon Nattin, Sr., the mayor of Bossier City from 1961 to 1973. ==Basketball== Though born in Houston, Texas, Nattin was reared in Bossier City, where he excelled in basketball at Bossier High School: All City, All District and All State in 1956 under coach John McConathy. He was valedictorian of his 1958 graduating class, the president of the student council, voted "Most Likely to Succeed", and an inductee of the BHS Alumni Association〔 and the Sports and Spirit Hall of Fame.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inductees: 2008 through 2012 )〕 Nattin was an inductee of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches. Not long before his death, he was inducted into the LSU Basketball All Century Team.〔 At LSU, his career free throw percentage of .792 ranks seventh on the university's all-time list, as of 2014. He led the team all three years in scoring with 13.5 points per game in 1960, 16.5 in 1961, and 12.8 in 1962. He led the team in field goals made twice (165 in 1961 and 122 in 1962), free throws in 1962 (62), field goal percentage in 1961 (41.8 percent). He led the team in free throws in 1961 and 1962 with 79.5 and 78.4 percent, respectively. Nattin's 937 career points fell short of inclusion in the 1,000-point club. His career free throws of 79.2 percent ranks eighth on the All-Time List at LSU.〔 Nattin made the 1960s All-Decade Team selected in 2008-2009 as part of the centennial celebration of LSU basketball. He was on the final ballot for the All-Century team.〔 Nattin was All-SEC in 1961 and Academic All-SEC in 1962. On January 13, 1961, as a starter for Coach Jay McCreary in a home game, Nattin helped LSU to defeat the Kentucky Wildcats, coached by the legendary Adolph Rupp. This was the first time in nineteen competitions, including a Southeastern Conference championship playoff game in 1954, that LSU had defeated Kentucky. The Tigers scored 73-59 over the Wildcats. Nattin netted twelve points, hit three field goals and made all six free-throw attempts. LSU did not win again against Kentucky until 1972, two years after Pete Maravich had moved to the National Basketball Association. In a 1961 road trip to No. 2 Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and to No. 5 University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Nattin scored 25 points against the Blue Devils. The game went into overtime, but the Tigers still lost. Nattin waited in Durham to read about the game in the morning newspaper.〔 Later a talented golfer, Nattin was instrumental in restoring the Palmetto Country Club, built in 1954 in Benton.〔 Nattin and several partners purchased Palmetto to save it from demolition to make way for a proposed subdivision. Many Bossier Parish civic figures were Palmetto members.〔 However, three months after Nattin's death, the Palmetto closed its doors because of declining business prospects. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Nattin, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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