1924 Yale Bulldogs football team

1924 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–0–2
Head coach	Tad Jones (7th season)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Captain	Winslow Lovejoy[1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl

1924 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	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

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 4		North Carolina	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 27–0	25,000	[8]
October 11		Georgia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 7–6		[9]
October 18		Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 14–14	42,000	[10]
October 25	2:00 p.m.	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 13–3	45,000	[11][12][13]
November 1		Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 7–7	80,000	[14]
November 8		Maryland	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 47–0	18,000	[15]
November 15		at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 10–0		[16]
November 22		Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 19–6
All times are in Eastern time

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. 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.
8. John M. Greene (October 5, 1924). "Yale Wins Opening Day Game From Southerners, 27 to 0". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Yale Catches Tartar in Georgia and Barely Wins by 7 to 6 Score". The Hartford Courant. October 12, 1924 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "42,000 Spectators Thrilled as Yale and Dartmouth Battle to 14-14 Draw in Bowl". The Hartford Courant. October 19, 1924. pp. 1B, 3B – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Yale And Brown Complete Three Decades of Grid Matches When They Meet In Brown Today". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 25, 1924. p. 1. Retrieved September 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
12. "Yale Turns Defeat Info Victory in Last Four Minutes Of Play, Beating Brown 13 to 3". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 26, 1924. p. 1B. Retrieved September 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
13. "Yale Pulls Game Out Of Fire (continued)". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 26, 1924. p. 2B. Retrieved September 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
14. "Yale Is Outplayed by Army in 7 to 7 Tie Before 80,000". The Hartford Courant. November 2, 1924. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Yale Trounces Maryland 47 to 0 in Game Worthless as Scientific Football Display". The Hartford Courant. November 9, 1924. p. 2B – via Newspapers.com.
16. Harry Schumacher (November 16, 1924). "Yale Wins: Bulldog Pulls Tigers' Tail to The Tune of 10-0". New York Daily News. p. 58 – via Newspapers.com.