After hearing Nebraska defenders constantly talk to him, Illinois quarterback Brandon Peters needed no words after a 1-yard touchdown run. During the 41-23 victory at Nebraska, which was the first for ...

One hundred years ago this week, Red Grange took the opening kickoff of the Illinois-Michigan football game on the Fighting Illini’s 5-yard line and zigzagged through 11 frustrated defenders to score ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Outside the west columns of 101-year-old Memorial Stadium sits Grange Grove, a prime tailgating spot filled to capacity with orange-and-blue tents on most Illinois game days.

A boisterous crowd of students at the University of Pennsylvania gathered in front of the campus Athletic Council on Wednesday morning, Oct. 28, 1925. Thousands of them were clamoring for tickets to ...

TUSCOLA, Ill. (WCIA) — One diehard Illini fan will be hitting a huge milestone at Memorial Stadium’s 100th anniversary game. Fifty years ago, Marci Shoemaker had her newspaper article signed by Red ...

Illinois announced Tuesday that it will wear "Gray Ghost" uniforms in its upcoming game against Minnesota in honor of Harold "Red" Grange. The uniforms will honor the 90th anniversary of Grange's ...

Harold “Red” Grange grabs the ball after the first kickoff of the Illinois-Michigan game on Oct. 18, 1924, beginning a sprint that took him 95 yards downfield for a touchdown at Memorial Stadium in ...

Keith Burlingame never saw it coming. Forty-three years later he's glad it did. "Even today it still means something," said Burlingame, an international aluminum magnate and philanthropist. Since 2000 ...

The first Elite Eight matchup in USA TODAY's quest to determine the greatest college football player of all-time is also a referendum on who's the greatest Illinois player of all-time. Linebacker Dick ...

Michael K. Bohn is an author in Alexandria, Va., and this article is adapted from his book, "Heroes & Ballyhoo: How the Golden Age of the 1920s Transformed American Sports." A boisterous crowd of ...