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1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football
1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team.jpg
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
Offensive scheme I formation
Captain Ralph Chapman
Seasons
« 1913 1915 »
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 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. 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.

End Perry Graves and guard Ralph Chapman were consensus All-Americans. Chapman was the team captain.


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