Though they didn’t get a whiff of the end zone all year, an upbeat Thomas sees only the positive. 7 in what turned out to be their final game of the season. The Warriors then were trounced 61-0 by Saint Francis University - which leads the Division I Northeast Conference - on Nov. 31 game against Texas Southern University was canceled due to heavy rains and flooding in Houston. The team is 0-5 and has been outscored 343-0, including an 86-0 shellacking at the hands of Valparaiso University on Sept. Christened the Warriors, they’re losing worse than ever. This year Thomas’s squad is back in West Memphis, where it started in 2012. Last year the Saints set a new standard for futility by totaling negative 124 yards rushing against Tusculum College in a 71-0 loss, an NCAA record, meaning their running backs would have fared better had they stopped trying to advance the ball and simply knelt and recited the Lord’s Prayer. Thomas’s football teams - called, variously, the Mighty Believers, the Wildcats and the Saints and decked out in uniform colors ranging from lime green to maroon to tangerine orange - have scored just once in their 19 games against NCAA and NAIA opponents, most of them Division I or II schools, losing by a combined 1,159-6. What exactly was this tiny Bible college - which has no stadium, campus or professors and whose founder, Sherwyn Thomas, a once-homeless street preacher, has moved his football program back and forth between Charlotte and West Memphis, Arkansas - doing playing a school like Davidson?
There was also a direct payment of thousands of dollars. It donated equipment, including practice pants and shoulder pads for the Saints players, covered their transportation costs to get to the game and served them a meal when they arrived. We had our starters out before the end of the first quarter and barely ran our offense because we felt bad for almost putting up 50 in the first half.”ĭavidson hadn’t just provided medical assistance to its outmatched opponent. “We were bad last year, but us players were still pissed we scheduled these guys. “This was the most embarrassing sh-t ever,” posted a player on the Davidson team that day, its 2014 season opener, and was upset about what occurred. In the wake of the lopsided loss - to a team that had not won in 12 previous games, going back more than a year and a half - and a host of injuries during the blowout, questions swirled about the College of Faith, its players and just what kind of football program the school was running. His family’s health insurance covered the bill. Carr later returned to the hospital, and surgeons inserted a plate and pins to repair the damage. The Wildcat trainers responded, examining Carr’s injury, helping him up, sliding his foot into a sling and outfitting him with crutches.īlair BallThe next day Carr took himself to the emergency room, where doctors determined his ankle was broken and required surgery. There was only one option - to summon the Davidson staff. “And all of a sudden someone got their foot under my foot and then someone else fell on top of me.”Ĭarr’s ankle screamed in pain, but his team didn’t have a trainer or anyone on hand with even remedial medical skills. “I was trying to go for a tackle,” recalled Carr, who at 6-foot-7 and 330 pounds has at least the size to compete at the upper collegiate level. The College of Faith Saints didn’t stand a chance against the Davidson College Wildcats, who were cruising to a 56-0 victory in front of their home crowd when Saints nose tackle Gerald Carr crumpled to the turf. On a warm August afternoon in 2014, about 20 minutes from Charlotte, North Carolina, the worst team in college football was taking a pounding.
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