[1] Godbold graduated from Auburn High School and in 1905 and 1910, respectively, received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Baptist-affiliated Mississippi College in Clinton.
From 1919 to 1923, Godbold was the corresponding secretary of the executive board of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, based in Alexandria.
Godbold worked to raise funds for capital development, much of which came during the 1950s after he had left the college presidency.
He raised $42,000 in forty days to build the three-story men's residence dormitory, Godbold Hall.
[5] In 1951, Godbold announced that he would retire as LC president and was succeeded in the summer of that year by G. Earl Guinn.
After he left LC, Godbold remained president emeritus with fund-raising duties until his death in 1952.