1919 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

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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
Seasons
« 1918 1920 »
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 FieldWest Lafayette, IN W 14–7  
10/18/1919 Iowa Illinois FieldChampaign, 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 FieldMinneapolis, MN W 10–6  
11/15/1919 Michigan Illinois Field • Champaign, IL W 29–7  
11/22/1919 at Ohio State Ohio FieldColumbus, OH W 9–7  
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming.

References

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