FOOTBALL | BASKETBALL • 1918-22

One of the greatest dual-sport athletes in Fighting Illini history, Chuck Carney was a national star in both football and basketball, earning the Helms Foundation National Player of the Year in basketball in 1922. He is the only Fighting Illini athlete, and first in the Big Ten, to earn consensus All-America honors in both football (1920) and basketball (1920 and 1922). Carney was an outstanding end for Bob Zuppke’s football team and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1966. He is also a member of the Helms Foundation College Basketball Hall of Fame. A three-time first-team all-conference selection as a basketball player, he set the Big Ten Conference single-season scoring record (188 points) that stood for 22 years. Carney is also a member of Illinois All-Century Teams for both football and basketball. Carney died in 1984 at the age of 84.