St._Thomas_(Minnesota)_Tommies_football

St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies football
St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies football
	2023 St. Thomas Tommies football team
First season	1904
Athletic director	Phil Esten
Head coach	Glenn Caruso ; 14th season, 144–25 (.852)
Stadium	O'Shaughnessy Stadium; (capacity: 5,025)
Field surface	Turf
Location	Saint Paul, Minnesota
Conference	Pioneer Football League
All-time record	593–239–24 (.707)
Conference titles	22; Division III: 21; Division I: 1
Rivalries	Saint John's (MN)
Colors	Purple and gray;
Mascot	Tommies
Website	tommiesports.com

St. Thomas Tommies football

American college football team

The St. Thomas Tommies football program represents University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Football began at the university in the late 1890s and the first official varsity intercollegiate games were played in 1904.^[2] St. Thomas was a charter member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, formed in 1920.^[3] In 2019, the MIAC announced that St. Thomas would be "involuntarily removed" from the conference at the end of the spring 2021 athletic season citing "athletic competitive parity" concerns.^[4]^[5] St. Thomas received approval from the NCAA to begin competing at the NCAA Division I FCS level as a member of the Pioneer Football League starting with the 2021 season and became the first program to jump from NCAA Division III to Division I FCS.^[6]

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Year	Conference	Coach	Overall record	Conference record
1922†	Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (D-III)	Joe Brandy	8–1	4–0
1929		Joe Boland	7–2	4–2
1930†		Joe Boland	7–2	5–0
1939		Nic Musty	5–3	4–1
1941		Willie Walsh	7–1	5–0
1942†		Willie Walsh	8–0	5–0
1946†		Frank Deig	4–3	3–1
1947†			4–3	4–0
1948†			7–1–1	5–0
1949			6–2	6–0
1956			8–0	7–0
1973†		DuWayne Deitz	9–1	6–1
1979†		DuWayne Deitz	6–3	6–2
1983		Mark Dienhart	9–2	9–0
1990†		Vic Wallace	8–3–1	7–2
2010		Glenn Caruso	12–1	8–0
2011			13–1	8–0
2012			14–1	8–0
2015			14–1	8–0
2016			12–1	8–0
2017			11–2	8–0
2019†			8–2	7–1
2022*	Pioneer Football League (D-I FCS)		10–1	8–0

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
1990	First Round Quarterfinals	Wisconsin–Whitewater Central (IA)	W, 24–23 L, 32–33
2009	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals	Monmouth (IL) Coe Linfield	W, 43–21 W, 34–7 L, 20–31
2010	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals	Benedictine Linfield Bethel (MN)	W, 57–10 W, 24–17 ^2OT L, 7–12
2011	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals	St. Scholastica Monmouth (IL) St. John Fisher Wisconsin–Whitewater	W, 48–2 W, 38–10 W, 45–10 L, 0–20
2012	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Stagg Bowl	St. Norbert Elmhurst Hobart Wisconsin–Oshkosh Mount Union	W, 48–17 W, 24–17 W, 47–7 W, 28–14 L, 10–28
2014	First Round	Wartburg	L, 31–37
2015	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Stagg Bowl	La Verne St. John's (MN) Wabash Linfield Mount Union	W, 57–14 W, 38–19 W, 38–7 W, 38–17 L, 35–49
2016	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals	Northwestern (MN) Coe Wisconsin–Oshkosh	W, 43–0 W, 55–6 L, 31–34
2017	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals	Eureka Berry Mary Hardin–Baylor	W, 47–8 W, 29–13 L, 10–24

2023	2024	2025	2026	2027	2029
Black Hills State	Northern Iowa	Idaho	at North Dakota	at Idaho	Harvard
at South Dakota	Black Hills State	at North Dakota State	Southern Utah
at Harvard

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Conference championships

Playoffs

NCAA Division III

Future non-conference opponents

See also

References

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