James Magness – Honorary Staff Member

• Founder and Coach of FSD Basketball for Black students.
• Editor of Sports news in many of the Florida School Herald issues.
• His FSD Rattlers basketball record in 1965 was 14 wins and 11 losses.
• His 1965 team won the championship in the basketball tournament at Georgia School for the Deaf beating first-, second-, and third-seeded teams. It’s the second time in a row that his team won the championship.
• Winning seasons:
  • 1957-58: 12-2
  • 1958-59: 13-6
  • 1959-60: 19-5
  • 1960-61: 22-4