1914 All-Western Conference football team

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The 1914 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Big Ten Conference teams chosen by various selectors for the 1914 college football season.

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, which is the team controlling the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with or passing the ball, while the defense, which is the team without control of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and aims to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, and otherwise they turn over the football to the defense; if the offense succeeds in advancing ten yards or more, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins.

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. Only Illinois claims a national championship for the 1914 season.

All Big-Ten selections

Ends

Boyd Cherry, Ohio State (WE-1)
George K. Squier, Illinois (WE-1)
Perry Graves, Illinois (WE-2)
Sanderson, Iowa (WE-2)

Boyd Vincent Cherry was an American football and basketball player. He played college football and basketball at Ohio State University. In 1914 he became the first Ohio State Buckeyes football player to receive All-American honors and the first to receive first-team all-conference honors. After graduating from Ohio State in 1915, he was employed for more than 25 years by the Kinnear Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Newark, Ohio, in 1893, and he died in 1970 at age 77 in Fort Myers, Florida.

Perry Henry Graves, Sr., was an All-American football player who played end for the University of Illinois from 1913 to 1915. In later life, he owned lumber companies.

Tackles

Cub Buck, Wisconsin (WE-1)
Laurens Shull, Chicago (WE-1)
Ray Keeler, Wisconsin (WE-2)
Lennox F. Armstrong, Illinois (WE-2)

Cub Buck American football player and coach

Howard Pierce "Cub" Buck was an American football player and college coach. He played as a tackle at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, captaining the team and earning consensus All-American honors in 1915. Buck then played professionally for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Canton Bulldogs (1916–1920) and Green Bay Packers (1921–1925). Buck served as the head football coach at Carleton College from 1917 to 1919, at Lawrence College in 1923, and as the first head coach at the University of Miami from 1926 to 1928. He was inducted into the Wisconsin State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1956, the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1977, and the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department Hall of Fame in 1991.

Laurens Corning "Spike" Shull was an All-American football player who was killed in action during World War I. He played football, baseball and basketball for the University of Chicago from 1913–1916. He died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Château-Thierry in July 1918.

Raymond Monroe "Tubby" Keeler was an American football player and coach.

Guards

Ralph Chapman, Illinois (WE-1)
H. B. Routh, Purdue (WE-1)
Arlie Mucks, Wisconsin (WE-2)
Herman Stegeman, Chicago (WE-2)

Ralph D. "Slouie" Chapman was an American football player. He was the son of P. T. Chapman, a wealthy banker in Vienna, Illinois. He played at the guard position for Robert Zuppke's University of Illinois football team from 1912 to 1914. Chapman was selected as the captain of the 1914 Illinois football team and a first-team All-American at the guard position in 1914. After graduating from Illinois, Chapman went into business in Chicago. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, he applied for and was accepted into the officers' training program at Fort Sheridan. He was commissioned a first lieutenant was among the first contingent of reserve officers training camp graduates to be sent to France. He was wounded and erroneously reported to have been killed in action in France in 1918. He survived his injuries and entered the brokerage business in Chicago following the war. He also served as vice president of the UI Foundation. He died in 1969 at age 77.

Herman James Stegeman was a player and coach of American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field athletics, and a college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Beloit College (1915), Monmouth College (1916–1917), and the University of Georgia (1920–1922), compiling a career college football coaching record of 29–17–6. At Georgia, Stegeman was also the head basketball coach (1919–1931), head baseball coach (1919–1920), and head track and field coach (1920–1937).

Centers

Paul Des Jardien, Chicago (WE-1) (CFHOF)
Boles Rosenthal, Minnesota (WE-2)

Paul Des Jardien American football and baseball player

Paul Raymond "Shorty" Des Jardien was an American football, baseball and basketball player. He played for the University of Chicago where he was selected as the first-team All-American center in both 1913 and 1914 and also pitched a no-hitter for the baseball team. He later played professional baseball for the Cleveland Indians and professional football for the Cleveland Indians (1916), Hammond Pros (1919), Chicago Tigers (1920) and Minneapolis Marines (1922). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.

Quarterbacks

George Clark, Illinois (WE-1)
Pete Russell, Chicago (WE-2)

George Clark (American football coach) American football coach

George M. "Potsy" Clark was an American football and baseball player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Michigan Agricultural College, now Michigan State University, (1920), the University of Kansas (1921–1925), Butler University (1927–1929), and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, compiling a career college football record of 40–45–7. Clark was also the head coach of the National Football League's Portsmouth Spartans/Detroit Lions and Brooklyn Dodgers (1937–1938), amassing a career NFL mark of 64–42–12. Clark's 1935 Detroit Lions team won the NFL Championship. From 1945 to 1953, Clark served as the athletic director at Nebraska.

Halfbacks

Harold Pogue, Illinois (WE-1)
Wilbur Hightower, Northwestern (WE-1)
Gray, Chicago (WE-2)

Fullbacks

Lorin Solon, Minnesota (WE-1)
Eugene Schobinger, Illinois (WE-2)

Key

WE = Walter Eckersall ^[1]

References

↑ "All Conference Elevens of "Big Nine" Selected". The Wichita Beacon. November 24, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved July 15, 2015– via Newspapers.com.

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[1] "All Conference Elevens of "Big Nine" Selected". The Wichita Beacon. November 24, 1914. p. 7. Retrieved July 15, 2015– via Newspapers.com.