Howard Seadogs football, 1943–1945

The Howard Seadogs were a college football team fielded by participants of the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Howard College (now known as Samford University) in the college football seasons of 1943, 1944, and 1945 during World War II. In January 1942, Howard announced their intercollegiate football program would be suspended for the duration of the war. After abandoning football for the 1942 college football season, in September 1943 College Chairman Frank P. Samford announced the school would field a team for the 1943 season. Called the Seadogs, the team was composed of trainees from the V-12 Unit.

Euil Snider served as head coach for the 1943 season and led the Seadogs to an overall record of 2–2. After Snider resigned as head coach and athletic director, Bub Walker was hired as head coach and athletic director at Howard after a stint as an assistant coach at Wake Forest. During Walker's two seasons he led the Seadogs, Howard was winless with an overall record of 0–10.

Prior to the start of the 1945 season, College President Harwell Davis stated it would likely be the last for the school as a result primarily of monetary losses and a small fan following throughout Birmingham. Howard did not field teams in either 1946 or 1947 and only fielded a student-led and coached club called the Howard College Sportsmen’s Club in 1948. In May 1949, school officials announced Howard would reinstate intercollegiate football for the 1949 season with Earl Gartman as head coach.

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