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1919 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

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Conference
  
Big Ten Conference

Head coach
  
Robert Zuppke

Captain
  
William Kopp

1919 record
  
6–1 (6–1 Big Ten)

Offensive scheme
  
T formation

Home stadium
  
Illinois Field

The 1919 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois in the 1919 college football season. The Fighting Illini compiled a 6–1 record (6–1 against Big Ten Conference opponents) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 91 to 48. The team was selected retroactively as the national champion by the Billingsley Report and Boand System, and as a co-national champion by the College Football Researchers Association, Parke H. Davis, and Jeff Sagarin (using his alternate ELO-Chess methodology). Fullback William Kopp was the team captain.

Contents

Roster

  • Head Coach: Robert Zuppke (7th year at Illinois)

    • Awards and honors

  • Dick Reichle, end
  • First-team selection of Reno Evening Gazette, selected by "W.P. Hahn, football expert of national note who is now located in Reno", for the 1919 College Football All-America Team
  • Burt Ingwersen, tackle
  • Second-team selection by Walter Camp for the 1919 All-America team
  • Jack Depler, guard
  • Second-team selection by Walter Camp for the 1919 All-America team

    • References

    1919 Illinois Fighting Illini football team Wikipedia
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