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Posted by Philip Poole on 2014-09-11
Pat Sullivan, Samford University's head football coach, is featured in a major profile distributed by al.com and the Birmingham News. The story talks about Sullivan's journey from high school football star in Birmingham through his Heisman Trophy-winning career at Auburn University, his many coaching stops and his battle with cancer in the early 21st century.
Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 6,101 students from 45 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks with the second highest score in the nation for its 98% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.
