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The 1914 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Army, Illinois, and Texas as having been selected national champions.[1] Only Illinois claims a national championship for the 1914 season.

Conference program and changes[]

Conference changes[]

  • Three conferences began football play in 1914:
    • Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference – active through the 1928 season; one of two conferences to bear this name, the second would be active between 1974 and 1996
    • Hawkeye College Conference – active through the 1917 season
    • Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association – active through the 1916 season

Membership changes[]

School 1913 Conference 1914 Conference
Colorado College Tigers Independent Rocky Mountain
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets SIAA Independent
Louisville Cardinals Independent KIAA
Southern California Trojans Reinstated Program Independent
Texas State M&M Miners Program Established Independent
Utah Agricultural Aggies Independent Rocky Mountain

Program changes[]

Conference standings[]

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1914 SIAA football standings
v · d · e Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Tennessee § 6 0 0     9 0 0
Auburn § 4 0 1     8 0 1
Texas A&M 2 0 0     6 1 1
Ole Miss 2 1 1     5 4 1
Mississippi A&M 4 2 0     6 2 0
Sewanee 4 2 0     5 3 0
Florida 3 2 0     5 2 0
Georgia 2 2 1     3 5 1
Clemson 2 2 0     5 3 1
Alabama 3 3 0     5 4 0
Kentucky 1 1 0     5 3 0
LSU 1 2 1     4 4 1
Chattanooga 1 3 0     5 4 0
Mississippi College 0 1 1     4 3 1
Wofford 0 1 0     1 7 1
Mercer 0 3 0     5 4 0
Tulane 0 3 1     3 3 1
The Citadel 0 3 0     2 5 0
Vanderbilt 0 3 0     2 6 0
§ – Conference co-champions
1914 NCAA independents football records
v · d · e Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Army         9 0 0
Montana         7 0 1
Oregon Agricultural         7 0 2
Dartmouth         8 1 0
Pittsburgh         8 1 0
Washington         6 0 1
Cornell         8 2 0
Notre Dame         6 2 0
Navy         6 3 0
Maryland         5 3 0
Penn State         5 3 1
Oregon         4 2 1
USC         4 3 0
Villanova         4 3 1
Idaho         2 3 1
Washington State         2 4 0
1914 Missouri Valley football standings
v · d · e Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Nebraska 3 0 0     7 0 1
Missouri 4 1 0     5 3 0
Iowa State 2 1 0     4 3 0
Kansas 2 2 0     5 2 1
Washington (MO) 0 3 1     3 3 1
Drake 0 3 1     4 3 1
Kansas State 0 3 0     1 5 1
1914 Rocky Mountain Conference football standings
v · d · e Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Colorado Mines 5 0 1     5 0 1
Colorado 4 1 0     5 1 0
Colorado College 3 1 1     4 1 1
Colorado Agricultural 3 3 0     3 4 0
Utah 2 3 0     3 3 0
Utah Agricultural 1 2 0     2 5 0
Denver 1 4 0     5 4 0
Wyoming 0 5 0     1 5 0
† – Conference champion
1914 Big 9 football standings
v · d · e 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
1914 SAIAA football standings
v · d · e Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Washington and Lee § 3 0 0     9 0 0
Virginia § 3 0 0     8 1 0
North Carolina 1 1 0     10 1 0
VPI 1 1 0     6 2 1
Georgetown 0 1 1     2 4 2
St. John's (MD) 0 1 0     0 1 0
Johns Hopkins 0 1 0     0 2 0
North Carolina A&M 0 2 1     3 2 1
Richmond 0 2 0     5 4 0
§ – Conference co-champions
1914 IIAC football standings
v · d · e Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Southern Illinois           2 5 1

Minor conferences[]

Conference Champion(s) Record
Central Intercollegiate Athletics Association Hampton Institute
Howard
Lincoln (PA)
2–1–0
1–1–0
1–1–0
Inter-Normal Athletic Conference of Wisconsin Whitewater Normal 4–0–0
Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Friends (KS)
Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Association Transylvania
Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association Southwestern Louisiana Industrial 5–0–0
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Olivet
Hillsdale
3–1–0
Ohio Athletic Conference Denison 5–1–0
Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference Central State Teachers
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Talladega
Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association Texas

Awards and honors[]

All-Americans[]

The consensus All-America team included:

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Charley Barrett 6'0" 180 Jr. Cleveland, Ohio Cornell
HB John Maulbetsch 5'9" 153 So. Ann Arbor, Michigan Michigan
HB Eddie Mahan 5'11" 171 Jr. Natick, Massachusetts Harvard
HB Johnny Spiegel Sr. Washington & Jefferson
FB Harry LeGore Jr. Woodsboro, Maryland Yale
E Huntington Hardwick 6'0" 171 Sr. Quincy, Massachusetts Harvard
E John E. O'Hearn 5'10" 173 Sr. Brookline, Massachusetts Cornell
T Harold Ballin 6'1" 194 Sr. New York, New York Princeton
G Stan Pennock 5'8" 193 Sr. Syracuse, New York Harvard
G Clarence Spears Jr. De Witt, Arkansas Dartmouth
C John McEwan 6'4" 200 So. Alexandria, Minnesota Army
G Ralph Chapman Sr. Vienna, Illinois Illinois
T Walter H. Trumbull Sr. Salem, Massachusetts Harvard
E Perry Graves Jr. Rockford, Illinois Illinois

Statistical leaders[]

  • Player scoring most points: Buck Mayer, Virginia, 142

References[]

  1. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book. Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. pp. 70. http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/DI/2009/2009FBS.pdf. Retrieved 2009-10-16.


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