University of Illinois Athletics

Claude Rothgeb, Football • 1900, 1902-04, Baseball • 1904-05, Track & Field • 1902-05

Claude Rothgeb earned 10 letters for the second-most in Illini history. As an end, he earned All-America honors in football as a senior in 1904 and posted a .351 batting average as a senior left fielder on a Big Ten baseball in 1905 before entering a brief MLB career. He helped lead the Illini to the 1904 Big Ten baseball title as a junior. Rothgeb was captain of the 1903 football squad and 1905 baseball team. He won the Big Ten title in shot put in 1903 and was also a sprinter while lettering four times in track and field. Rothgeb died in 1944 at the age of 64.