American college football season
1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football Conference Western Conference 1914 record 7–0 (6–0 Western) Head coach Offensive scheme I formation [1] Captain Ralph Chapman Seasons
1914 Western Conference 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
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 October 3 Christian Brothers* Illinois Field Champaign, IL W 37–0
October 10 Indiana Illinois Field Champaign, IL W 51–0
October 17 Ohio State Illinois Field Champaign, IL W 37–0
October 24 at Northwestern Northwestern Field Evanston, IL W 33–0
October 31 at Minnesota Northrop Field Minneapolis, MN W 21–6
November 14 Chicago Illinois Field Champaign, IL W 21–7
November 21 at Wisconsin Madison, WI W 24–9
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 [ ]
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]
Third-team All-American selection by Frank G. Menke[6]
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"[7]
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 [ ]
Venues
Illinois Field (1890–1922)
Memorial Stadium (1923–present)
Soldier Field (1994-present)
Bowls & rivalries Culture & lore People Seasons National championship seasons in bold
1869–1879 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Western Conference Big Ten Big Nine
Illinois (1946)
Michigan (1947)
Michigan (1948)
Michigan & Ohio State (1949)
Big Ten
Michigan (1950)
Illinois (1951)
Purdue & Wisconsin (1952)
Illinois & Michigan State (1953)
Ohio State (1954)
Ohio State (1955)
Iowa (1956)
Ohio State (1957)
Iowa (1958)
Wisconsin (1959)
Minnesota & Iowa (1960)
Ohio State (1961)
Wisconsin (1962)
Illinois (1963)
Michigan (1964)
Michigan State (1965)
Michigan State (1966)
Indiana , Minnesota , Purdue (1967)
Ohio State (1968)
Michigan & Ohio State (1969)
Ohio State (1970)
Michigan (1971)
Michigan & Ohio State (1972)
Michigan & Ohio State (1973)
Michigan & Ohio State (1974)
Ohio State (1975)
Michigan & Ohio State (1976)
Michigan & Ohio State (1977)
Michigan & Michigan State (1978)
Ohio State (1979)
Michigan (1980)
Iowa & Ohio State (1981)
Michigan (1982)
Illinois (1983)
Ohio State (1984)
Iowa (1985)
Michigan & Ohio State (1986)
Michigan State (1987)
Michigan (1988)
Michigan (1989)
Illinois , Iowa , Michigan , & Michigan State (1990)
Michigan (1991)
Michigan (1992)
Ohio State & Wisconsin (1993)
Penn State (1994)
Northwestern (1995)
Ohio State & Northwestern (1996)
Michigan (1997)
Michigan , Ohio State , & Wisconsin (1998)
Wisconsin (1999)
Michigan , Northwestern , & Purdue (2000)
Illinois (2001)
Ohio State & Iowa (2002)
Michigan (2003)
Iowa & Michigan (2004)
Ohio State & Penn State (2005)
Ohio State (2006)
Ohio State (2007)
Ohio State & Penn State (2008)
Ohio State (2009)
Michigan State & Wisconsin (2010)
Wisconsin (2011)
Wisconsin (2012)
Michigan State (2013)
Ohio State (2014)
Michigan State (2015)
Penn State (2016)
Ohio State (2017)
Ohio State (2018)
Ohio State (2019)
Ohio State (2020)
Michigan (2021)
National championships in bold