Carlton Hall (Vanderbilt '98), a veteran coach with 24 years of collegiate coaching experience at a variety of levels, joined the Augsburg University football coaching staff as co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach in 2025.
Prior to coming to Augsburg, Hall spent five seasons on the coaching staff at Division III Millikin University (Ill.), the final three seasons (2022-24) as head coach. He was the Big Blue's defensive coordinator for two years prior to the promotion. In his Millikin tenure, Hall mentored one consensus All-American and the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Defensive Player of the Year (’21), two first-team and five second-team All-CCIW student-athletes.
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Prior to Millikin, Hall spent three seasons at NAIA Southern Oregon University as linebackers coach. While there, he coached five first-team All-Frontier Conference linebackers, and was part of a staff that led Southern Oregon to a 12-1 record in 2017 and the best two defensive seasons (2017 and 2018) statistically in school history. In a coaching career that has included jobs at Division III Williams (Mass.), Division II schools West Alabama and Northwestern Oklahoma State, and Division I programs Yale, Houston, Elon, Georgetown, Columbia and Harvard, Hall has coached 36 All-Conference players, seven NFL players, four All-Americans, three team captains, two conference Defensive Players of the Year, and a Rhodes Scholar.
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Hall attended Division I Vanderbilt University, where he was a four-year letterwinner and a three-year starter at linebacker. He was voted All-Southeastern Conference and played in the East-West Shrine Game after leading the SEC in tackles his senior campaign. Hall signed with the NFL's San Diego Chargers in 1998.
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Hall double-majored at Vanderbilt with a Bachelor of Science degree in Human & Organizational Development and Psychology. Hall has two grown children, Yesenia Lambert and Carsun Hall.
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