1983 Illinois Fighting Illini football team
1983 Illinois Fighting Illini football | |
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Big Ten champion | |
Conference | Big Ten Conference |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 10 |
AP | No. 10 |
1983 record | 10–2 (9–0 Big Ten) |
Head coach | Mike White (4th season) |
MVP | Don Thorp |
Captain | Tim Brewster |
Captain | Joe Miles |
Captain | Don Thorp |
Home stadium |
Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 70,906) |
1983 Big Ten football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 10 Illinois $ | 9 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 8 Michigan | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 14 Iowa | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 9 Ohio State | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wisconsin | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purdue | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michigan State | 2 | – | 6 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indiana | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northwestern | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minnesota | 0 | – | 9 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 10 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1983 Illinois Fighting Illini football team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season.
The team's offensive leaders were quarterback Jack Trudeau with 2,446 passing yards, running back Thomas Rooks with 842 rushing yards, and wide receiver David Williams with 870 receiving yards.[1] Defensive end Don Thorp was selected as the team's most valuable player and also received the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the Big Ten Conference.[2] The 1983 Illini remain the only team in Big Ten history to go 9-0 in regular season conference play.
Schedule
Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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September 10 | 1:30 PM | at Missouri* | Faurot Field • Columbia, Missouri (Rivalry) | L 18–28 | 53,744 | ||||
September 17 | 6:00 PM | Stanford* | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, Illinois | W 17–7 | 72,852 | ||||
September 24 | 11:30 AM | at No. 19 Michigan State | Spartan Stadium • East Lansing, Michigan | ABC | W 20–10 | 75,867 | |||
October 1 | 1:00 PM | No. 4 Iowa | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, Illinois | W 33–0 | 73,351 | ||||
October 8 | 1:30 PM | at Wisconsin | No. 19 | Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, Wisconsin | W 27–15 | 78,307 | |||
October 15 | 1:00 PM | No. 6 Ohio State | No. 19 | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, Illinois (Illibuck Trophy) | W 17–13 | 73,414 | |||
October 22 | 1:30 PM | at Purdue | No. 11 | Ross–Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, Indiana (Purdue Cannon) | W 35–21 | 69,328 | |||
October 29 | 11:30 AM | No. 8 Michigan | No. 9 | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, Illinois | CBS | W 16–6 | 76,127 | ||
November 5 | 7:00 PM | at Minnesota | No. 6 | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome • Minneapolis | W 50–23 | 35,514 | |||
November 12 | 1:00 PM | Indiana | No. 5 | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, Illinois | W 49–21 | 73,612 | |||
November 19 | 1:00 PM | at Northwestern | No. 4 | Dyche Stadium • Evanston, Illinois (Sweet Sioux Tomahawk) | W 56–24 | 52,333 | |||
January 2 | 4:00 PM | vs. UCLA* | No. 4 | Rose Bowl • Pasadena, California (Rose Bowl) | NBC | L 9–45 | 103,217 | ||
*Non-conference game. |
*Schedule Source:[3]
Awards and honors
- Don Thorp (Defensive end)
- Chicago Tribune Silver Football
- All-American, (defensive end)
- Jim Juriga, (Tackle)
- All-American, (tackle)
- Craig Swoope, (Defensive back)
- All-American, (defensive back)
References
- ↑ "1983 Illinois Fighting Illini Stats". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
- ↑ "Fighting Illini Football Record Book" (PDF). University of Illinois. 2015. p. 155. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ↑ DeLassus, David. "Illinois Yearly Results: 1980–1984". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
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