Chicago Maroons football

2015 Chicago Maroons football team

First season

1892

Athletic director

TBA

Head coach

Chris Wilkerson
3rd year, 14–5 (.737)

Stadium

Stagg Field

Seating capacity

1,650

Field surface

FieldTurf

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Conference

Independent

All-time record

416–368–34 (.529)

Claimed nat'l titles

2 (1905, 1913)

Conference titles

Heisman winners

Consensus All-Americans

Current uniform

Colors

Maroon and White

Fight song

Wave the Flag

Mascot

Maroons

Website

athletics.uchicago.edu

The Chicago Maroons football represents the University of Chicago in college football. The Maroons play in NCAA Division III as an independent team. From 1892 to 1939, the Maroons were a major college football power. The University of Chicago was a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and the Maroons were coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg, one of the game's pioneers, for 41 seasons. In 1935, halfback Jay Berwanger became the first recipient of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later known as the Heisman Trophy. Nonetheless, in the late 1930's, university president Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that big-time college football and the university's commitment to academics was not a good fit.^[1] The University of Chicago abolished its football program in 1939 and withdrew from the Big Ten in 1946. Football returned to the University of Chicago in 1963 in the form of a club team, which was upgraded to varsity status in 1969. The Maroons began competing in Division III in 1973.

Division history

Year	Division
1937–1939	NCAA University Division (Major College)
1940–1962	No team
1963–1968	Club team
1969–1972	No Classification
1973–present	NCAA Division III

Conferences

Year	Conference
1892–1895	Independent
1896–1939	Big Ten Conference
1940–1962	No team
1963–1968	Club team
1969–1972	Independent
1973–1975	Division III Independent
1976–1987	Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference
1988–1989	Division III Independent
1990–2014	University Athletic Association
2015–2016	Southern Athletic Association
2017-	TBA^[2]

Records

Most Wins: 16 (1899)
Most Losses: 10 (1991)
Most Ties: 3 (1924)

Championships

National championships

1905 (National Championship Foundation Poll)
1913 (Parke H. Davis) (2)

University Athletic Association championships

1998
2000 (2)
2005 (3)
2010 (4)
2014 (5)

Big Ten Conference championships

1899
1905 (2)
1907 (3)
1908 (4)
1913 (5)
1922 (6)
1924 (7)

All-Time Record Against Current Big Ten Members^[3]

School	Wins	Losses	Ties	%
Illinois	19	22	3	.466
Indiana	20	4	1	.789
Iowa	9	3	2	.714
Maryland*	1	0	0	1.000
Michigan	7	19	0	.269
Michigan State*	1	0	0	1.000
Minnesota	5	12	1	.306
Nebraska*	1	1	0	.500
Northwestern	26	8	3	.743
Ohio State	2	10	2	.214
Penn State*	0	0	0	N/A
Purdue	27	14	1	.655
Rutgers*	0	0	0	N/A
Wisconsin	16	19	5	.463

Note: Michigan State, Penn State, Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers were not members of the Big Ten when Chicago was a member.

Notable personnel

College Football Hall of Fame

Name	Position	Years	Inducted	Notes
Jay Berwanger	Halfback	1933–1935	1954	First recipient of the Heisman Trophy
Hugo Bezdek	Fullback	1905	1954	Inducted for his career as a coach at Oregon, Arkansas, and Penn State
Fritz Crisler	End	1919–1921	1954	Inducted for his career as a coach at Minnesota, Princeton, and Michigan
Paul Des Jardien	Center	1912–1914	1955	All-American in 1913 and 1914
Walter Eckersall	Quarterback	1903–1906	1951	Leader of the 1905 national championship team
Clarence Herschberger	Fullback	1895–1898	1970	First western player selected as a first-team All-American
Tiny Maxwell	Guard	1902, 1904–1905	1974	All-American for 1905 national championship team
Clark Shaughnessy	Coach	1933–1939	1968	College football coach for 50 years
Amos Alonzo Stagg	Coach	1892–1932	1951	"The Grand Old Man of the Midway"
Walter Steffen	Quarterback	1906–1908	1969	Scored 156 points for teams that went 13-2-1; First-team All-American, 1908
Andy "Polyphemus" Wyant	Guard, Center	1892–1894	1962	Played 8 varsity seasons of college football for Bucknell and Chicago

Others

Walter S. Kennedy, quarterback for Stagg's 1898-1899 teams
Walter E. Marks, fullback and halfback, 1924–1926; leader of Chicago's last Big Ten championship team
Nelson Norgren, played football under Stagg, coached Chicago basketball team, 1921–1942, 1944–1957
Laurens Shull, All-American, killed in action during World War I
Frederick A. Speik, end, All-American, 1904
Herman Stegeman, played for 1913 national championship; later coached football, baseball, basketball and track at Georgia
John Webster Thomas, fullback, All-American 1922, played for Stagg 1921-1923
Mysterious Walker, played for Stagg, 1904–1906; coached college teams, 1907–1940

References

↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/sports/ncaafootball/at-the-university-of-chicago-football-and-higher-education-mix.html?_r=0
↑ "Wash U, Chicago already leaving SAA". d3football.com. June 12, 2015. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
↑ http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/

External links

Official website

Chicago Maroons football

Venues	Marshall Field (1893–1912) Old Stagg Field (1913–1939) Stagg Field (?–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Michigan (historic) Purdue

Culture & lore	Phoenix Big Bertha Monsters of the Midway Marching band T formation 1894 Stanford game 1922 Princeton game

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

National championship seasons in bold

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