1914 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

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.

Roster

 * Head Coach: Robert Zuppke (second year at Illinois)

Awards and honors

 * Perry Graves, end
 * Consensus first-team selection on the 1914 College Football All-America Team


 * Ralph Chapman, guard
 * Consensus first-team selection on the 1914 All-America team


 * Lennox F. Armstrong, tackle
 * Third-team All-American selection by Frank G. Menke, sporting editor of the International News Service


 * Potsy Clark
 * Third-team All-American selection by Frank G. Menke
 * Outing magazine's "Football Roll of Honor: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914"


 * Harold Pogue, halfback
 * First-team selection by Fred M. Walker of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and The Michigan Daily for the 1914 All-America team
 * Second-team selection by Walter Eckersall for the 1914 All-America team of the Chicago Tribune
 * Third-team selection by Walter Camp and Frank G. Menke for the 1914 All-America team
 * Outing magazine's "Football Roll of Honor"