1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football
National champion (Billingsley)
Co-national champion (Davis)
Western Conference champion
Conference Big Ten Conference
1914 record 7–0 (6–0 Big Ten)
Head coach Robert Zuppke
Offensive scheme I formation[1]
1914 Big 9 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Illinois $ 6 – 0 – 0     7 – 0 – 0
Minnesota 3 – 1 – 0     6 – 1 – 0
Chicago 4 – 2 – 1     4 – 2 – 1
Wisconsin 2 – 2 – 1     4 – 2 – 1
Ohio State 2 – 2 – 0     5 – 2 – 0
Purdue 2 – 2 – 0     5 – 2 – 0
Iowa 1 – 2 – 0     4 – 3 – 0
Indiana 1 – 4 – 0     3 – 4 – 0
Northwestern 0 – 6 – 0     1 – 6 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 1914 college football season. The Fighting Illini compiled a 7–0 record (6–0 against Western Conference opponents), claim a national championship, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 224 to 22.[2] The team was retroactively selected as the national champion for 1914 by the Billingsley Report and as a co-national champion with Army by Parke H. Davis.[3]

End Perry Graves and guard Ralph Chapman were consensus All-Americans.

Roster

Player Position
Perry Henry Graves Right End
Manley Ross Petty Right Tackle
Frank Stewart Right Guard
John Ward Nelson Right Guard
John Wesley Watson Center
Ralph Dwyer Clinton Chapman (Captain) Left Guard
Lennox Francois Armstrong Left Tackle
Olay Madsen Left Tackle
Sylvester Randall Derby Left End
George Kasson Squier Left End
George Clark Quarterback
Francis Bartlett Macomber Right Halfback
Frank Howard Pethybridge Right Halfback
Eugene Schobinger Fullback
Orlie Rue Fullback
Alexander Wagner Left Halfback
Harold Austin Pogue Left Halfback


Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
10/03/1914 Christian Brothers* Illinois Field • Champaign, IL W 37–0  
10/10/1914 Indiana Illinois Field • Champaign, IL W 51–0  
10/17/1914 Ohio State Illinois Field • Champaign, IL W 37–0  
10/24/1914 at Northwestern Northwestern Field • Evanston, IL W 33–0  
10/31/1914 Minnesota Northrop Field • Minneapolis, MN W 21–6  
11/14/1914 Chicago Illinois Field • Champaign, IL W 21–7  
11/21/1914 at Wisconsin Madison, WI W 24–9  
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming.

References

  1. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=5pPYAODf6ZAC&pg=PA207
  2. ↑ "1914 Illinois Fighting Illini Schedule and Results".
  3. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
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