The addition of key players, including future National Player of the Year, Ray Woods, helped guide the Illini to an overall record of nine wins and four losses.
Guard Ray Woods was named first-team All-America all three years he competed (1915–17), and brother Ralf, a forward, led the team in scoring in both 1916 and 1917.
The starting lineup included Gordon Otto, Dan W. Elwell and Ralf Woods rotating at the forward position, center C. G. Alwood, and guards Clarence Applegran and captain Ray Woods.
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