By RAY BENSON
REcord Sports Writer

Once again, South Carolina’s high schools made wholesale changes in their athletic staffs during the summer months as coaches played the fame of “Musical Chairs” to the hilt.

The South Carolina High School League handbook shows 84 coaching changes from the 1963-64 school year. The big switches include:

Wade Corn from Lancaster to the new triple-A school, Paul Dorman of Spartanburg; Mooney Player from Saluda to Lower Richland; successful Lloyd Kelly from Class B Slater-Marietta to Double-A Carolina and Otis Rawl from North to Pelion.

Here’s the Musical Chair list by conferences;

In triple-A, Dub Lowrimore moves in as basketball coach at Aiken. Corn, of course, moves from Lancaster to Paul Dorman. Ralph Cannon and Curtis Powell are also at Dorman, but they came from Fairforest and Roebuck, the two schools which combined to form Dorman. Dalton Rivers takes over as football coach at Lancaster, and Don Dixon is the basketball coach. T. R. Crane replaces Bob McLean as Florence basketball coach. James Bruce is the new basketball coach at North Augusta, and Steve Satterfield moves in as football coach at Wade Hampton. Harold Lollis, who was Wade Hampton football coach, remains on the staff.

Kelly is the new football and basketball coach at Carolina in Western AA. Cliff Malpass moves from Woodruff to become basketball coach at Chapman, replacing Fred Fraley. In Eastern AA, Don Helms, former Erskine star, is the new basketball coach at Laurens, replacing Johnnie Mac Goff. James Nelson moved from Chester to take over the basketball reins at Newberry. Bill Morningstar Is the new basketball head at Union, while Mel Bouknight, who played basketball at Newberry College, takes over the roundball job at Woodruff.

In the AA Sandhills, Mac Goff takes over basketball at Camden, replacing Spencer Johnson who remains on the staff. Don Richardson is the new football coach at Dentsville, and Sammy Andrews replaces Art Whisnant as basketball chief at Hartsville. Bishop England in AA Atlantic has a new staff in football coach Jack Cantey and basketball coach Charlie Gallagher at Garrett. Buddy Sasser will also coach basketball in addition to football at Conway. St. Andrews also has a new staff in football coach Ed Commins and basketball coach John Kicklighter. Commins switches from basketball, replacing Hazel Gilstrap.

A new school, McDuffie of Anderson, joins 1-A and has Phil Thornton, who came from Bells, as basketball coach. William Walters replaces John McDill as Ware Shoals basketball coach. In 2-A, Pendleton has a new staff in football coach Bob Morgan and basketball coach Johnny Medlock. Roland Rosier is the new football coach at Seneca while Jerry Swing, coming from Beaufort, takes over basketball at that school Tom Wilson (football) and Gary Geddens (basketball) move in a Westminster, replacing Joe Wright and Jim Nelson. Jim Wiles takes over basketball at Wren.

At Blacksburg in 3-A, Bob Blanton (football) and Harold Broome (basketball) replaces W. E. Fisher.Jerry Cobb is the new basketball coach at Boiling Springs. In 4-A, Conrad Horton adds football to his basketball duties. WEndell Clamp is the new basketball chief at Barnwell in 5-A, while Carl Stegall takes over roundball duties at Lexington. Marion Lee replaces Player as football coach at Saluda.

Jim Linder at Lower Richland, Steve Hicks at Southside, John Thames at Manning and Jame Kolb at Hillcrest are new basketball coaches in 6-A.

Russell Hart moves from Flat Creek to the head football and basketball jobs at Aynor in 7-A. Cheraw has a new staff with Jack Turpin (football) and Lafond Eddins (basketball). Myrtle Beach also had a changeover with Danny Brabham moving form Cheraw to become head football coach at Myrtle Beach. Carroll Taylor moves in as basketball chief while Ernest Neal will devote more time to administrative duties. Henyard Caines at Loris and Tommy Edwards at Mullins are new basketball coaches.

Only change in 8-A finds Charles McKinney replacing Roger Linderman as basketball coach at Wade Hampton. The same for 1-B where Lowell Jennings becomes the coach at Dacusville. Slater-Marietta has named no one to replace Kelly while Gray Court-Owings dropped to Class C.

Kenneth Kay (football) and Gordon Jackson (basketball) are new at Calhoun Falls in 2-B. Arthur Culpepper and Gene Cockrell are new basketball coaches at Ford and Hollywood, respectively. Conferences 3-B and 4-B had no coaching changes.

In 5-B, Jerry Rankin takes over basketball at Mayewood. In 6-B, Sherwood Hayes at Green Sea and Charles Floyd at Socastee are new basketball coaches, while Frank DePrete takes over football at Wampee-Little River. Louis O’Gorman take over football at Denmark-Olar in 7-B, while Otis Culclasure at St. Matthews and James Phillips at Williston Elko are new basketball coaches. Blackville needs a football coach as does North.

Bells, in 8-A, has a new staff with Terry Kunkle coaching football and Ben Killian basketball. Dick Hussey is back in the game again. taking over as football and basketball coach at Estill, John Rhodes is a new basketball coach at First Baptist (Charleston). Macedonia brought in a Newberry College staff with Tom Gorman as football coach and Fred Haley as basketball chief. Atlee Brown moves in as basketball coach at Ridgeland.

Conference 1-C staffs remain intact, but 2-C has numerous changes. Dan James is Bethune’s new basketball coach as is Jack Parker at Blaney. Donald Lindsay takes over at Flat Creek, which dropped from Class B. Rawl is the new man at Pelion while Phil Chewning takes over at Ruby. W. E. Johnson moves from Pelion to coach football at Salley while Charl Adams moves from Blaney to head Salley basketball.

In 3-C, Benny Onley takes on basketball at Britton’s Neck. James Hewitt is the new football-basketball head at Lower Marlboro. Summerton has a new staff in Richland McCutchen (football) and Jerry Gwin (basketball). Francis Carter takes over football at Jackson, Claude Davis heads football and basketball at Hardeeville and Charles Phillips takes over basketball at Grays. These are all 4-C switches.

There you have the “Musical Chairs” story of high school coaching in South Carolina for 1964-65.