1914 college football season explained

Year:	1914
Champion:	Army Illinois Texas
Heisman:	Not awarded until 1935

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
	Independent	Rocky Mountain
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	SIAA	Independent
	Independent	KIAA
	Reinstated Program	Independent
	Program Established	Independent
	Independent	Rocky Mountain

Program changes

• After reinstating their football program after a 3-year hiatus, the University of Southern California Methodists officially changed their nickname to the now-eponymous Trojans.

Stadiums

Final Season

• Alabama plays their final season at The Quad. The Quad has been Alabama's home field since their first home game in 1893. The final game at The Quad was a 21–3 victory over Chattanooga on 11/13/1914. For 1915, Alabama would move into University Field on the southern edge of campus.

Conference standings

Major conference standings

For this article, major conferences defined as those including multiple state flagship public universities.

Minor conferences

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

Minor conference standings

Awards and honors

All-Americans

See main article: 1914 College Football All-America Team. 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book . 70 . The National Collegiate Athletic Association . August 2009 . Indianapolis, IN . 2009-10-16.