1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

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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
Seasons
« 1913 1915 »
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.[1] 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.[2]

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

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
10/03/1914 Christian Brothers* Illinois FieldChampaign, 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 FieldEvanston, IL W 33–0  
10/31/1914 Minnesota Northrop FieldMinneapolis, 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.

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