Smashing line plunges, perfectly executed runs around the end and in every department King completely outclassed the Carolina team.
Sharp, Orr, Osborne and Captain Finnifrock tore off long gains at will, riddled smashed and crumbled the visitor's line.
[4]King defeated Lenoir–Rhyne so heavily that the sportswriter for the game "became so bored with the beatdown" that he stopped noting statistics following the first half.
[4][6] The team's quarterback later noted in 1955 that "If we had been able to play a regulation game we'd have broken the old scoring record of 222 that Georgia Tech rolled up against Cumberland University.
"[4] They received national attention for their win and it was from this that their nickname, the "Tornado", was born: a newspaper headline was titled "King College's Victory Was 'Tornado' Of Week's Games" and the name stuck.
[4] Jack Young became coach in 1938 following Jackson's death; they had three winning seasons in four years under him, but suspended operations due to World War II and never returned.