1920 Illinois Fighting Illini Football Team
The 1920 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1920 college football season. In their eighth season under head coach Robert Zuppke, the Illini compiled a 5–2 record and finished in fourth place in the Big Ten Conference. Center J. C. Depler was the team captain. Schedule Awards and honors *Chuck Carney, (End) ** Consensus All-American, End *Albert Mohr, (Guard) ** All-American, Guard * Jack Depler, (Center) ** All-American, Center *Jack Crangle ** All-American, Fullback References Illinois Illinois Fighting Illini football seasons Illinois Fighting Illini football The Illinois Fighting Illini football program represents the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) level. The Fighting Illini are a founding member of ...

Big Ten Conference
The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1896, it predates the founding of its regulating organization, the NCAA. It is based in the Chicago area in Rosemont, Illinois. For many decades the conference consisted of 10 universities, and it has 14 members and 2 affiliate institutions. The conference competes in the NCAA Division I and its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport. Big Ten member institutions are major research universities with large financial endowments and strong academic reputations. Large student enrollment is a hallmark of its universities, as 12 of the 14 members enroll more than 30,000 students. They are largely state public universities; found ...
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1920 Chicago Maroons Football Team
The 1920 Chicago Maroons football team was an American football team that represented the University of Chicago during the 1920 college football season. In their 29th season under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Maroons compiled a 3–4 record, finished in eighth place in the Big Ten Conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 77 to 27. Schedule References {{Chicago Maroons football navbox Chicago Chicago Maroons football seasons Chicago Maroons football The Chicago Maroons football team represents the University of Chicago in college football. The Maroons, which play in NCAA Division III, have been a football-only member of the Midwest Conference since 2017. The University of Chicago was a found ...

1920 Big Ten Conference Football Season
The 1920 Big Ten Conference football season was the 25th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference (also known as the Western Conference) and was a part of the 1920 college football season. The 1920 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, under head coach John Wilce, compiled a 7–0 record in the regular season, won the Big Ten championship, and lost to California in the 1921 Rose Bowl. Halfback Gaylord Stinchcomb and guard Iolas Huffman were consensus first-team All-Americans. The 1920 Wisconsin Badgers football team, under head coach John R. Richards, compiled a 6–1 record and finished in second place in the Big Ten. Tackle Ralph Scott was a consensus first-team All-American. End Frank Weston and center George Bunge also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector. End Chuck Carney of Illinois was the Big Ten's fourth consensus first-team All-American. Iowa led the conference in scoring offense (20.3 points per ...
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Jack Crangle
Walter Francis "Jack" Crangle (June 8, 1899 – August 31, 1944) was an American football fullback. He played college football for the University of Illinois and was selected as an All-American in 1920 and 1921. He was a member of Illinois' Big Ten Conference championship teams in 1919 and 1920. He played one season of professional football for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League. He was selected as a second-team All-NFL player by Collyers Eye Magazine in 1923. He also played minor league baseball in 1924 for Elgin in the Chicago League. Crangle later became a football and basketball coach at St. Viator College, head baseball coach and assistant football coach under Gwinn Henry at the University of Missouri and assistant football coach at St. Louis University. In his later years, he worked for the Aluminum Company of America and operated a filling station north of Columbia, Missouri. Crangle died at his home in Independence, Missouri at age 45 in 1944. Follow ...
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Jack Depler
John Charles Depler (January 6, 1899 – December 5, 1970) was a professional football player and coach. Prior to his professional career, he played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team of the University of Illinois. There he helped lead Illinois to its second national championship in 1919, and earned first-team All-American honors in 1920. After graduation, Depler played for the Hammond Pros of the National Football League (NFL). The following year, he was hired as an assistant coach to Frank "Buck" O'Neill, at Columbia University, where he stayed for the next eight seasons. In 1929, Depler rejoined the NFL as a player-coach with the Orange Tornadoes. In following season, he bought the Dayton Triangles and relocated the team to Brooklyn, New York, with the help of Bill Dwyer, an early Prohibition gangster and bootlegger. Depler was now the co-founder and coach of the NFL's new Brooklyn Dodgers. He took most of the members of the 1929 Tornadoe ...
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1920 College Football All-America Team
The 1920 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1920. The four selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1920 season are (1) Walter Camp (WC), whose selections were published in ''Collier's Weekly''; (2) ''Football World'' magazine; (4) the International News Service, a news service operated by the Hearst newspapers; and (3) the Frank Menke syndicate (FM). Additional notable selectors who chose All-American teams in 1920 included Walter Eckersall (WE) of the ''Chicago Tribune'', the United Press (UP), and ''The New York Times'' (NYT). Consensus All-Americans For the year 1920, the NCAA recognizes four All-America selectors as "official" for purposes of its consensus determinations. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which official and other first-team designati ...
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Chuck Carney
Charles Roslyn Carney (August 25, 1900 – September 5, 1984) was an American football and basketball player. Carney was born in Chicago in 1900. He enrolled at the University of Illinois where he excelled in both football and basketball. He played at the end position for the Fighting Illini football team from 1918 to 1921. He was selected as a consensus first-team All-American in 1920. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1966. Carney was a member of the Illini men's basketball team from 1920 to 1922. He established the single-season, Big Ten Conference record with 60 field goals (188 points) during the 1921 Big Ten season, a record that stood for 22 years. He was selected as an All-American basketball player in both 1920 and 1922, becoming the first Big Ten athlete to receive All-American honors in both football and basketball. He was named Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year in 1922. He is the only Fighting Illini athlete to ear ...
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Illibuck Trophy
The Illibuck Trophy is the centerpiece of an American college football rivalry between the Illinois Fighting Illini football team of the University of Illinois and Ohio State Buckeyes football team of Ohio State University, with the winner of their game receiving said trophy. History The Illibuck is a carved wooden turtle that serves as the trophy awarded to the winner of the game. Two junior honorary societies, Bucket and Dipper of Ohio State and Atius-Sachem of Illinois, are responsible for the care of the Illibuck. Originally the "trophy" was a live turtle when the tradition began in 1925, picked for its expected long life as a symbol of the anticipated long life of the rivalry. From 1919 to 1933, the Illinois–Ohio State game was the regular-season finale for both teams. Since the original turtle's death on April 14, 1926, ten wooden replica Illibucks have been carved, each with the scores from games on its back. The Illibuck is the second oldest trophy passed between Big ...
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1920 Ohio State Buckeyes Football Team
The 1920 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 1920 college football season. They outscored opponents 150–20 in the regular season and beat Michigan, 14–7. The Buckeyes compiled a 7–1 record, including the 1921 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where they lost 28–0 to California. Schedule Coaching staff * John Wilce, head coach, eighth year References Ohio State Ohio State Buckeyes football seasons Big Ten Conference football champion seasons Ohio State Buckeyes football The Ohio State Buckeyes football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing Ohio State University in the East Division of the Big Ten Conference. Ohio State has played their home games at Ohio Stadium in ...

Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-largest in the U.S. The city forms the core of the Madison Metropolitan Area which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties for a population of 680,796. Madison is named for American Founding Father and President James Madison. The city is located on the traditional land of the Ho-Chunk, and the Madison area is known as ''Dejope'', meaning "four lakes", or ''Taychopera'', meaning "land of the four lakes", in the Ho-Chunk language. Located on an isthmus and lands surrounding four lakes—Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Kegonsa and Lake Waubesa—the city is home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Wisconsin State Capitol, the Overture Center for the Arts, and the Henry Vilas Zoo. Madison is ho ...
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Camp Randall Stadium
Camp Randall Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin. It has been the home of the Wisconsin Badgers football team in rudimentary form since 1895 Wisconsin Badgers football team, 1895, and as a fully functioning stadium since 1917 Wisconsin Badgers football team, 1917. The oldest and fifth largest stadium in the Big Ten Conference, Camp Randall is the 41st list of stadiums by capacity, largest stadium in the world, with a seating capacity of 80,321. The field has a conventional north-south alignment, at an approximate elevation of above sea level. History The stadium lies on the grounds of Camp Randall, a Union Army training camp during the American Civil War, Civil War. The camp was named after then List of governors of Wisconsin, Governor Alexander Randall (Wisconsin politician), Alexander Randall, who later became United States Postmaster General, Postmaster General of the Unit ...
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1920 Wisconsin Badgers Football Team
The 1920 Wisconsin Badgers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1920 Big Ten Conference football season. The team compiled a 6–1 record (4–1 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the Big Ten Conference, shut out four of seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 141 to 29. John R. Richards was in his fourth year as Wisconsin's head coach. End Frank Weston was the team captain. Guard Ralph Scott was a consensus first-team All-American. In addition, Frank Weston and center George Bunge were selected as first-team All-Americans by the Frank Menke Syndicate and Lawrence Perry, respectively.''ESPN College Football Encyclopedia'', p. 1154 Those three (Weston, Scott, and Bunge) and Al Elliott Robert Allen (born Alvah Charles Elliott; October 13, 1894 – December 18, 1975), also known as "Al Elliott", was a professional baseball and professional American football player. ...
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