1924 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1924 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–0–2
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainWinslow Lovejoy[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1923
1925 →
1924 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 9 Dartmouth   –   7 – 0 – 1
No. 3 Yale   –   6 – 0 – 2
No. 8 Penn   –   9 – 1 – 1
Rutgers   –   7 – 1 – 1
Bucknell   –   8 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   7 – 2 – 0
Holy Cross   –   7 – 1 – 1
Army   –   5 – 1 – 2
Syracuse   –   8 – 2 – 1
Fordham   –   6 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   4 – 1 – 3
Boston College   –   6 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 3 – 1
Princeton   –   4 – 2 – 1
Springfield   –   4 – 2 – 1
Columbia   –   5 – 3 – 1
Pittsburgh   –   5 – 3 – 1
NYU   –   4 – 3 – 1
CCNY   –   4 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 4 – 0
Cornell   –   4 – 4 – 0
Harvard   –   4 – 4 – 0
Tufts   –   3 – 4 – 2
Franklin & Marshall
   –   3 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   2 – 5 – 1
Drexel   –   2 – 7 – 0
Vermont   –   2 – 7 – 0
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 0
Boston University   –   1 – 5 – 0
Buffalo   –   1 – 7 – 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1924 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1924 college football season. The Bulldogs opened the season with victories over North Carolina and Georgia and concluded the season with victories over rivals Princeton and Yale. The team finished with an undefeated 6–0–2 record under seventh-year head coach Tad Jones. The two ties were against Dartmouth and Army.[2]

Yale end Richard Luman was named a consensus selection for the 1924 College Football All-America Team, having been so honored by the All-America Board and the International News Service.[3] Other Yale players receiving first-team All-American honors in 1924 were center Winslow Lovejoy (All-America Board, Football World, All-Sports Magazine, and Norman E. Brown),[3][4][5] halfback Ducky Pond (Newspaper Editors Association and Billy Evans),[3][6] and tackle Johnny Joss (Lawrence Perry).[7]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4 North Carolina
W 27–025,000[8]
October 11Georgia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–6[9]
October 18 Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 14–1442,000[10]
October 252:00 p.m. Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 13–345,000[11][12][13]
November 1 Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 7–780,000[14]
November 8 Maryland
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 47–018,000[15]
November 15at Princeton
W 10–0[16]
November 22 Harvard
W 19–6

References

  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1924". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 64. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1924 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1156
  4. ^ "Handcock Honored on All-American By 'All-Sports'". Iowa City Press-Citizen. December 5, 1924.
  5. ^ Norman E. Brown (December 8, 1924). "Brown Picks All-American Team for the Journal". Hamilton Evening Journal.
  6. ^ "Evans Names Hancock On Second All-American". Iowa City Press-Citizen. December 11, 1924.
  7. ^ Lawrence Perry (December 14, 1924). "Lawrence Perry's All-American Teams Announced". Oakland Tribune.
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