The 2003 Duke Blue Devils football team represented the

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team participated as members of the

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. They played their homes games at

Wallace Wade Stadium Wallace Wade Stadium, in full Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium, is a 40,004-seat outdoor stadium in the southeastern United States, located on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Primarily used for American football, i ...

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. The team was led by head coach

Carl Franks Carl Franks (born December 1, 1960) is an American football coach and former player. He currently serves as the running backs coach at Bethune–Cookman University. Franks served as the head football coach at Duke University from 1999 to 2003, co ...

, who was fired during the season and replaced by interim head coach, Ted Roof. Duke won two of the last three games of the season under Roof earning him the full-time coaching position.

Schedule

Roster

Team players in the NFL

References

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