1914 Minnesota

6–⁠1 (3–⁠1 Western Conference), coached by Henry Williams. Share

Minnesota, 1914 — Photo: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Schedule and results

Biggest winBeat Iowa State 26–⁠0Oct 10
By 26 points, its widest win.

Each game’s margin, wins above the line and losses below.

Date	Opponent	Result
Oct 3	vsNorth Dakota	W 28–⁠6	96%
Oct 10	vsIowa State	W 26–⁠0	67%
Oct 17	vsSouth Dakota	W 29–⁠7	93%
Oct 24	atIowa	W 7–⁠0	51%
Oct 31	vsIllinois	L 6–⁠21	64%
Nov 14	vsWisconsin	W 14–⁠3	61%
Nov 21	atChicago	W 13–⁠7	37%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Beat Chicago 13–⁠7; 2nd in the Western Conference.

In program history: The 29th-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 135 on file).

Photographs from 1914

UW vs. Minnesota football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game
UW vs. Minnesota football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game
UW vs. Minnesota football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game
UW vs. Minnesota football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game
UW vs. Minnesota football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game
UW vs. Minnesota football gamePhoto: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, No Copyright – United States, via Digital Public Library of America
The game

Photographs from libraries and archives found through the Digital Public Library of America, each under the rights statement its holder gives (no copyright in the United States, public domain or Creative Commons) and credited to it. Captions as each collection catalogues them.

Players on this team

Bert BastonEnd

Before 2004 our records hold honors and the draft; these are the players whose college years here, from their Wikipedia articles or their honors, include 1914.

Record: 6–⁠1
Conference: 3–⁠1 2nd in Western Conference
AP poll: Began in 1936
Points: 123–⁠44
Coach: Henry Williams
Elo: 1634 +54 this season
SP+ rating: —
SRS: 27.7 No. 3 of 83 major-college teams
Recruiting class: —

Captain: Boles Rosenthal

All-Western Conference

1 first team, 1 second team

First team

Lorin SolonFBWE-1

Second team

Boles RosenthalCWE-2

From Wikipedia’s 1914 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

1914 Western Conference standings

Team	Conf.	Overall
Illinois	6–⁠0	7–⁠0
Minnesota	3–⁠1	6–⁠1
Chicago	4–⁠2–⁠1	4–⁠2–⁠1
Ohio State	2–⁠2	5–⁠2
Purdue	2–⁠2	5–⁠2
Wisconsin	2–⁠2–⁠1	4–⁠2–⁠1
Iowa	1–⁠2	4–⁠3
Indiana	1–⁠4	3–⁠4
Northwestern	0–⁠6	1–⁠6

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.