1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

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

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 Field • Champaign, 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 Field • Evanston, IL	W 33–0
10/31/1914	Minnesota	Northrop Field • Minneapolis, 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. Homecoming.

References

1. "1914 Illinois Fighting Illini Schedule and Results".
2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.