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The 2003 Carroll Fighting Saints football team was an
American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
team that represented Carroll College as a member of the
Frontier Conference The Frontier Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The conference was founded in 1934. Member institutions are located in the northwestern United States, in the ...
during the
2003 NAIA football season The 2003 NAIA football season was the component of the 2003 college football season organized by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in the United States. The season's playoffs, known as the NAIA Football National Champio ...
. In their fifth season under head coach
Mike Van Diest Mike Van Diest is an American college football coach. He most recently served as the defensive coordinator at Montana State University–Northern in 2021. Van Diest was the head football coach at Carroll College in Helena, Montana from 1999 to 20 ...
, the Saints compiled a perfect 15–0 record (8–0 against conference opponents) and won the NAIA national championship, defeating , 41–28, in the NAIA National Championship Game. Carroll's sophomore quarterback Tyler Emmert received the 2003
NAIA Football Player of the Year Award The Rawlings-NAIA Football Player of the Year is an award sponsored by Rawlings. This prize is awarded annually to the best college football player in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics The National Association of Intercolleg ...
. In 2003, Carroll's offense under Emmert averaged more than 40 points and approximately 500 yards per game. The team played its home games at Nelson Stadium in Helena, Montana.


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