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1914 college football season

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Total # of teams
  
83

Champions
  
Illinois Fighting Illini

The 1914 NCAA football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Army, Illinois, and Texas as having been selected national champions. Only Illinois claims a national championship for the 1914 season.

Contents

Conference changes

  • Three conferences began football play in 1914:
  • Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference – active through the 1928 season; one of two conferences to bear this name, the second would be active between 1974 and 1996
  • Hawkeye College Conference – active through the 1917 season
  • Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association – active through the 1916 season

    • Program changes

  • After reinstating their football program after a 3-year hiatus, the University of Southern California Methodists officially changed their nickname to the now-eponymous Trojans.

    • Conference standings

    The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

    All-Americans

    The consensus All-America team included:

    Statistical leaders

  • Player scoring most points: Buck Mayer, Virginia, 142

    • References

    1914 college football season Wikipedia
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