Ten wins meant more when that was the max

The writer is responding to a list that appeared in the Dec. 28 Sports section, “10-win teams.”

Of course, 10 wins is a very good season, but it does not mean as much now as it used to when teams only played 10 regular season games, and only conference champions went to post season play.  Now of course, everybody and his brother goes to the post season.

Salisbury Boyden is still the only Rowan County football team to ever win a football State Championship at the highest athletic level in the state.  The 1955 and 1957 teams were competing on the 3A level, but there was no 4A then. Only the 1955 team won 10 games because Gastonia and Boyden tied for the Western Championship and had to have a playoff game to determine who would go to the State Championship.

Price High may have also won a State Championship, or championshipd at the highest level for black schools, but I am not certain. I know many years ago they had some really good football teams, and they, like Boyden, were small fish in a pond of big fish.

— Gordon Correll

Salisbury

Rights of frozen embryos

I would like the government of North Carolina to create a law that would declare frozen embryos are human beings that can’t be destroyed if their parents get divorced. Both liberals and conservatives should be able to agree on this. If you think that frozen embryos should have some basic human rights, you should contact your state legislators.

  — Chuck Mann

Greensboro