1923 Illinois Fighting Illini football team

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1923 Illinois Fighting Illini football
National champion (Boand, CFRA, Helms, Davis)
Co-national champion (QPRS, NCF, Sagarin-ELO)
Big Ten co-champion
Conference Big Ten Conference
1923 record 8–0 (5–0 Big Ten)
Head coach Robert Zuppke
Seasons
« 1922 1924 »
1923 Big Ten football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Illinois + 5 0 0     8 0 0
Michigan + 4 0 0     8 0 0
Chicago 5 1 0     7 1 0
Minnesota 2 1 1     5 1 1
Iowa 3 3 0     5 3 0
Indiana 2 2 0     3 4 0
Wisconsin 1 3 1     3 3 1
Ohio State 1 4 0     3 4 1
Purdue 1 4 0     2 5 1
Northwestern 0 6 0     2 6 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1923 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 1923 college football season. The Fighting Illini compiled an 8–0 record (5–0 against Western Conference opponents) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 136 to 20.[1] The team was selected retroactively as the national champion by the Boand System, College Football Researchers Association, Helms Athletic Foundation, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the Berryman QPRS system, National Championship Foundation, and Jeff Sagarin (using the ELO-Chess methodology).[2]

Guard Jim McMillen and halfback Red Grange were consensus All-Americans.

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
10/06/1923 Nebraska* Memorial StadiumChampaign, IL W 24–7  
10/13/1923 Butler* Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL W 21–7  
10/20/1923 at Iowa Iowa FieldIowa City, IA W 9–6  
10/27/1923 at Northwestern Northwestern FieldEvanston, IL W 29–0  
11/3/1923 Chicago Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL W 7–0  
11/10/1923 Wisconsin Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL W 10–0  
11/17/1923 Mississippi State* Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL W 27–0  
11/24/1923 at Ohio State Ohio StadiumColumbus, OH W 9–0  
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming.

References

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