1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

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Conference Big Ten Conference Head coach Robert Zuppke Captain Ralph Chapman		1914 record 7–0 (6–0 Big Ten) Offensive scheme I formation

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. 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.

End Perry Graves and guard Ralph Chapman were consensus All-Americans. Chapman was the team captain.

Roster

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

Ralph Chapman, guard

Consensus first-team selection on the 1914 All-America team

Lennox F. Armstrong, tackle

Third-team All-American selection by Frank G. Menke, sporting editor of the International News Service

Potsy Clark

Third-team All-American selection by Frank G. Menke

Outing magazine's "Football Roll of Honor: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914"

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

Second-team selection by Walter Eckersall for the 1914 All-America team of the Chicago Tribune

Third-team selection by Walter Camp and Frank G. Menke for the 1914 All-America team

Outing magazine's "Football Roll of Honor"

References

1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team Wikipedia

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Roster

Awards and honors

References