1927 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

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1927 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Illinois + 5 0 0 7 0 1
No. 3 Minnesota + 3 0 1 6 0 2
No. 7 Michigan 3 2 0 6 2 0
Chicago 3 3 0 4 4 0
Purdue 2 2 0 6 2 0
Northwestern 2 3 0 4 4 0
Ohio State 2 3 0 4 4 0
Indiana 1 2 1 3 4 1
Iowa 1 4 0 4 4 0
Wisconsin 1 4 0 4 4 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1927 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 1927 college football season. The Fighting Illini compiled a 7–0–1 record (5–0 against Western Conference opponents) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 152 to 24.[1] The team was selected as the 1927 national champion by the Billingsley Report, Dickinson System, Helms Athletic Foundation, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[2]

Though the team had no consensus All-Americans and was known for its lack of prominent names, center Robert Reitsch and guard Russ Crane made a handful of first-team selections.

Schedule

10/01/1927Bradley*

W 19–0 10/08/1927Butler*

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Champaign, IL

W 58–0 10/15/1927Iowa State*

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Champaign, IL

T 12–12 10/22/1927at Northwestern

W 7–6 10/29/1927Michigan

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Champaign, IL

W 14–0 11/5/1927at Iowa

W 14–0 11/12/1927Chicago

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Champaign, IL

W 15–6 11/19/1927at Ohio State

W 13–0

Template:CFB Schedule End

References

  1. ^ "1927 Illinois Fighting Illini Schedule and Results".
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 109. Retrieved January 13, 2016.