Hall of Fame
Ted W. Goins (Lenoir-Rhyne, 1953) lettered and started three years for an L-R Football Team (1950-52) that went a combined 26-4 during that span.  Goins, an all-conference honoree, was a member of two North State Conference Championships and played in the Pythian Bowl (1951) and the Cigar Bowl (1952).  The 1951 squad went 10-1 and won the Pythian Bowl while the 1952 team finished 8-1.  Goins earned his Master of Divinity from the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (Columbia, S.C.) in 1956.  Goins was a full-time Lutheran Minister for the North Carolina Synod of the ELCA from 1956 to 1998 and is currently Pastor Emeritus for St. John’s Lutheran Church in Concord, N.C.  Goins, a 2005 Lincoln County Sports Hall of Fame inductee, is married to the former Frances Queen Summey and the couple has three children:  Mary, Ted and John.
