1927 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

1927 Illinois Fighting Illini football
National champion
(Billingsley, Dickinson, Helms, NCF, Davis)
Big Ten co-champion
Conference Big Ten Conference
1927 record 7–0–1 (5–0 Big Ten)
Head coach Robert Zuppke
Captain Robert Reitsch
1927 Big Ten football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Illinois + 5 – 0 – 0     7 – 0 – 1
Minnesota + 3 – 0 – 1     6 – 0 – 2
Michigan 3 – 2 – 0     6 – 2 – 0
Chicago 3 – 3 – 0     4 – 4 – 0
Purdue 2 – 2 – 0     6 – 2 – 0
Northwestern 2 – 3 – 0     4 – 4 – 0
Ohio State 2 – 3 – 0     4 – 4 – 0
Indiana 1 – 2 – 1     3 – 4 – 1
Iowa 1 – 4 – 0     4 – 4 – 0
Wisconsin 1 – 4 – 0     4 – 4 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1927 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 1927 college football season. The Fighting Illini compiled a 7–0–1 record (5–0 against Western Conference opponents) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 152 to 24.[1] The team was selected as the 1927 national champion by the Billingsley Report, Dickinson System, Helms Athletic Foundation, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[2]

Though the team had no consensus All-Americans and was known for its lack of prominent names, center Robert Reitsch and guard Russ Crane made a handful of first-team selections.

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
10/01/1927 Bradley* Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL W 19–0  
10/08/1927 Butler* Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL W 58–0  
10/15/1927 Iowa State* Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL T 12–12  
10/22/1927 at Northwestern Northwestern Field • Evanston, IL W 7–6  
10/29/1927 Michigan Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL W 14–0  
11/5/1927 at Iowa Iowa Field • Iowa City, IA W 14–0  
11/12/1927 Chicago Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL W 15–6  
11/19/1927 at Ohio State Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH W 13–0  
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming.

References

  1. ↑ "1927 Illinois Fighting Illini Schedule and Results".
  2. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 109. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
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