1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team
Appearance
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Conference | Western Conference |
Record | 7–0 (6–0 Western) |
Head coach | |
Offensive scheme | I formation[1] |
Captain | Ralph Chapman |
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois 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. Chapman was the team captain.[4]
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result |
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October 3 | Christian Brothers* | W 37–0 | |
October 10 | Indiana |
| W 51–0 |
October 17 | Ohio State |
| W 37–0 |
October 24 | at Northwestern | W 33–0 | |
October 31 | at Minnesota | W 21–6 | |
November 14 | Chicago |
| W 21–7 |
November 21 | at Wisconsin | Madison, WI | W 24–9 |
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Roster
Player | Position |
Perry Graves | Right End |
Manley Ross Petty | Right Tackle |
Frank Stewart | Right Guard |
John Ward Nelson | Right guard |
John Wesley Watson | Center |
Ralph 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 |
Bart Macomber | Right halfback |
Frank Howard Pethybridge | Right halfback |
Eugene Schobinger | Fullback |
Orlie Rue | Fullback |
Alexander Wagner | Left halfback |
Harold Pogue | Left halfback |
- Head Coach: Robert Zuppke (second year at Illinois)
Awards and honors
- Perry Graves, end
- Consensus first-team selection on the 1914 College Football All-America Team[5]
- Ralph Chapman, guard
- Consensus first-team selection on the 1914 All-America team[5]
- Lennox F. Armstrong, tackle
- Third-team All-American selection by Frank G. Menke, sporting editor of the International News Service[6]
- Harold Pogue, halfback
- First-team selection by Fred M. Walker of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and The Michigan Daily for the 1914 All-America team[8]
- Second-team selection by Walter Eckersall for the 1914 All-America team of the Chicago Tribune[9]
- Third-team selection by Walter Camp and Frank G. Menke for the 1914 All-America team[10][11]
- Outing magazine's "Football Roll of Honor"[7]
References
- ^ "Football".
- ^ "1914 Illinois Fighting Illini Schedule and Results".
- ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
- ^ "Fighting Illini Football Record Book" (PDF). University of Illinois. 2015. p. 156. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ^ a b "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
- ^ a b "Menke Selects Annual All-American Eleven". New Castle News. November 25, 1914.
- ^ a b "Football Roll of Honor: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914" (PDF). Outing. 1915. p. 498.
- ^ Spalding's Official Football Guide 1915
- ^ "Eckersall Names All-Stars: Eckersall Names One Western Man; Maulbetsch of Michigan on All-American". Waterloo Evening Courier. December 12, 1914.
- ^ "Walter Camp's Three All-American Elevens". The Syracuse Herald. 1914-12-13.
- ^ "Menke Selects Annual All-American Eleven". New Castle News. 1914-11-25.