1919 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

1919 Illinois Fighting Illini football
National champion (Billingsley, Boand) Co-national champion (CFRA, Davis, Sagarin-ELO) Big Ten champion
Conference	Big Ten Conference
1919 record	6–1 (6–1 Big Ten)
Head coach	Robert Zuppke

1919 Big Ten football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Illinois $	6	–	1	–	0			6	–	1	–	0
Ohio State	3	–	1	–	0			6	–	1	–	0
Chicago	4	–	2	–	0			5	–	2	–	0
Wisconsin	3	–	2	–	0			5	–	2	–	0
Minnesota	3	–	2	–	0			4	–	2	–	1
Iowa	2	–	2	–	0			5	–	2	–	0
Michigan	1	–	4	–	0			3	–	4	–	0
Northwestern	1	–	4	–	0			2	–	5	–	0
Indiana	0	–	2	–	0			3	–	4	–	0
Purdue	0	–	3	–	0			2	–	4	–	1
$ – Conference champion

The 1919 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 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.^[1] 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).^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
10/11/1919	at Purdue	Stuart Field • West Lafayette, IN	W 14–7
10/18/1919	Iowa	Illinois Field • Champaign, IL	W 9–7
10/25/1919	Wisconsin	Illinois Field • Champaign, IL	L 10–14
11/1/1919	Chicago	Illinois Field • Champaign, IL	W 10–0
11/8/1919	at Minnesota	Northrop Field • Minneapolis, MN	W 10–6
11/15/1919	Michigan	Illinois Field • Champaign, IL	W 29–7
11/22/1919	at Ohio State	Ohio Field • Columbus, OH	W 9–7
*Non-conference game. Homecoming.

References

1. "1919 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.