Published on November 23, 2015 at 8 a.m.  

Who says that Samford isn’t bowl eligible?  Not the judges for the Southeastern Ethics Bowl championship, held earlier this month in St. Petersburg, Florida.  The Bulldogs defeated the Midshipmen of the U. S. Naval Academy in the championship match.  They’ll move on to the national championship round, scheduled for February in Reston, Virginia.  Led by team captain Caleb Punt (given the abundance of football clichés in this piece, I’ll resist the temptation to offer additional commentary on Caleb’s last name), the Samford squad includes Bailey Bridgeman, Stone Hendrickson, Jordan Holland, Laura Ann Prickett and Elizabeth Poulos.  They are coached by two all-stars, Wilton Bunch and Michael Janas.

The world is better because of Samford’s game-winning students and coaches (in athletics and in other significant areas of campus life).

 
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 5,791 students from 49 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 6th nationally for its Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.