Career
He was an All-American football and lacrosse player at Princeton during the 1950-1951 academic year. After graduating, Finney served in the Navy during the Korean War and later became a teacher then headmaster at the Gilman School. Finney played college football for the Princeton Tigers football team and was selected by both the Football Writers Association of America and the International News Service as a first-team player on their 1950 College Football All-America Teams.
Finney later worked as an athletic coach and teacher and subsequently became the headmaster at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland.
He retired as headmaster at Gilman in 1992.