Samford Bulldogs football

Samford Bulldogs football are the Division I, Football Championship Subdivision representatives of Samford University. Currently the Bulldogs complete in the Southern Conference, having moved from the Ohio Valley Conference at the start of the 2008 season.

Samford plays its home games on campus at the 6,700-seat Seibert Stadium.

The program began when the school was known as Howard College with its campus located at East Lake. The football program was dormant from 1973 to 1984.

Head coaches

• 1902 - 1903: Houston Gwin (3-4-0)
• 1903: W. T. O'Hara (1-1-0)
• 1905: Davis Stakely (1-2-1)
• 1906 - 1908: John Counselman (9-10-1)
• 1908: Winton Blount (2-2-0)
• 1909: John Longwell (14-14-3)
• 1910: J. C. Donnelly (1-8-0)
• 1911: John Longwell (14-14-3)
• 1912 - 1914: Lonnie Noojin (10-13-2)
• 1915: Eugene Caton (3-4-1)
• 1916 - 1917: John Longwell (14-14-3)
• 1917: Bill Streit (1-1-0)
• 1918: Maxwell James (0-2-0)
• 1919: Chet Dillon (16-11-5)
• 1920 - 1921: Robert Marshall (6-11-1)
• 1922 - 1923: Harris Cope (5-10-5)
• 1924 - 1926: Jenks Gillem (13-12-2)
• 1927 - 1928: Chet Dillon (16-11-5)
• 1929 - 1933: Eddie McLane (28-19-6)
• 1934: Shorty Propst (3-4-2)
• 1935 - 1939: Billy Bancroft (22-18-4)
• 1940 - 1941: Bill White (10-17-1)
• 1943: Snitz Snider (2-2-0)
• 1944 - 1945: Bub Walker (0-10-0)
• 1948: Ted McCrary (4-4-0)
• 1949 - 1953: Earl Gartman (14-28-1)
• 1954: Bill White (10-17-1)
• 1955 - 1956: Howard Foote (3-13-2)
• 1957 - 1958: Virgil Ledbetter (5-11-1)
• 1959 - 1962: Bobby Bowden (31-6-0)
• 1963 - 1965: Bubba Scott (13-13-2)
• 1966 - 1968: John Lee Armstrong (20-9-2)
• 1969 - 1973: Wayne Grubb (25-20-3)
• 1984 - 1987: Kim Alsop (6-21-0)
• 1987 - 1992: Terry Bowden (45-23-1)
• 1993: Chan Gailey (5-6-0)
• 1994 - 2001: Pete Hurt (42-39-1)
• 2001 - 2007: Bill Gray (27-33-0)
• 2007 - 2014: Pat Sullivan (47–42-0)
• 2014 - present: Chris Hatcher (0-0)