1924 Yale Bulldogs football team

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]

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
Seasons ← 1923 1925 →

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

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