Published on January 25, 2016 by Joey Mullins
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Former Samford University football star Cortland Finnegan reached Super Bowl 50 with the Carolina Panthers following the team’s 49-15 win over the Arizona Cardinals.
Finnegan, who played for the Bulldogs from 2002 to 2005, was one of three former Bulldogs in the NFL playoffs.
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, 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.
