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Posted by Joey Mullins on 2014-05-11
Three former Samford University football players -- Kelsey Pope, Jeremy Towns and Fabian Truss -- will have opportunities with National Football League teams. Pope has signed a free agency deal with the Arizona Cardinals. Towns and Truss have been invited to a mini-camp tryout with the New York Jets. All three completed their Samford careers as part of the 2013 Southern Conference co-championship team.
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 6,324 students from 44 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 is widely recognized as having one of the most beautiful campuses in America, featuring rolling hills, meticulously maintained grounds and Georgian-Colonial architecture. 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.
