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1924 Southern Conference football season

The 1924 Southern Conference football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Conference as part of the 1924 college football season. The season began on September 20. Sewanee and VMI joined the conference this year. Vanderbilt dropped its comembership with the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).

1924 Southern Conference football season
LeagueNCAA
SportCollege football
DurationSeptember 20, 1924
through December 6, 1924
Number of teams22
Regular Season
Season championsAlabama
Football seasons
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1925 →
1924 Southern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Alabama $ 5 – 0 – 0 8 – 1 – 0
Florida 2 – 0 – 1 6 – 2 – 2
Georgia 5 – 1 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Tulane 4 – 1 – 0 8 – 1 – 0
Washington and Lee 4 – 1 – 1 6 – 3 – 1
South Carolina 3 – 2 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Sewanee * 3 – 2 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Mississippi A&M 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Virginia 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Georgia Tech 3 – 2 – 1 5 – 3 – 1
Vanderbilt * 3 – 3 – 0 6 – 3 – 1
VPI 2 – 2 – 3 4 – 2 – 3
VMI 2 – 3 – 1 6 – 3 – 1
Kentucky 2 – 3 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
North Carolina 2 – 3 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Auburn 2 – 4 – 1 4 – 4 – 1
Maryland 1 – 2 – 1 3 – 3 – 3
NC State 1 – 4 – 1 2 – 4 – 2
LSU 0 – 3 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Ole Miss 0 – 3 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Clemson 0 – 3 – 0 2 – 6 – 0
Tennessee 0 – 4 – 0 3 – 5 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • * – co-member of SIAA

Alabama was awarded the Champ Pickens Trophy as conference champion, though the loss to Centre hindered any claims of a championship of the South.

Vanderbilt end Hek Wakefield was a second-team Walter Camp All-American.

Season overview

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Results and team statistics

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Conf. Rank Team Head coach Overall record Conf. record PPG PAG
1 Alabama Wallace Wade 8–1 5–0 32.2 2.7
2 Florida James Van Fleet 6–2–2 2–0–1 21.1 4.4
3 Georgia Kid Woodruff 7–3 5–1 12.9 6.1
4 Tulane Clark Shaughnessy 8–1 4–1 22.3 6.6
5 Washington and Lee James DeHart 6–3–1 4–1–1 16.3 6.0
6 (tie) South Carolina Sol Metzger 7–3 3–2 12.0 4.8
6 (tie) Sewanee M. S. Bennett 5–3 3–2 8.1 4.7
6 (tie) Mississippi A&M Earl Abell 5–4 3–2 9.1 10.0
6 (tie) Virginia Greasy Neale 5–4 3–2 8.0 9.2
10 Georgia Tech William Alexander 5–3–1 3–2–1 9.1 8.7
11 Vanderbilt Dan McGugin 6–3–1 3–3 15.0 5.3
12 VPI Ben Cubbage 4–2–3 2–2–3 11.4 2.0
13 VMI Blandy Clarkson 6–3–1 2–3–1 15.2 2.9
14 (tie) Kentucky Fred Murphy 4–5 2–3 14.3 11.0
14 (tie) North Carolina Bob Fetzer/Bill Fetzer 4–5 2–3 4.2 6.3
16 Auburn Boozer Pitts 4–4–1 2–4–1 5.1 4.4
17 Maryland Curley Byrd 3–3–3 1–2–1 8.2 8.7
18 NC State Buck Shaw 2–6–2 1–4–1 4.3 14.7
19 (tie) LSU Mike Donahue 3–5–1 0–3 13.8 9.0
19 (tie) Ole Miss Chester S. Barnard 4–6 0–3 4.0 15.8
19 (tie) Clemson Bud Saunders 2–6 0–3 10.4 16.9
22 Tennessee M. B. Banks 3–5 0–4 10.0 12.0

Key

PPG = Average of points scored per game[1]
PAG = Average of points allowed per game[1]

Regular season

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Index to colors and formatting
Non-conference matchup; SoCon member won
Non-conference matchup; SoCon member lost
Non-conference matchup; tie
Conference matchup

SoCon teams in bold.

Week One

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
September 20 Transylvania Sewanee McGee Field • Sewanee, Tennessee W 27–0
September 20 Wofford VMI Lexington, Virginia W 33–0

Week Two

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
September 27 Union (TN) Alabama Denny Field • Tuscaloosa, Alabama W 55–0
September 27 Auburn Birmingham–Southern Rickwood Field • Birmingham, Alabama W 7–0
September 27 Elon Clemson Riggs Field • Calhoun, South Carolina W 60–0
September 27 Mercer Georgia Sanford Field • Athens, Georgia W 26–7
September 27 Oglethorpe Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta W 19–0
September 27 Spring Hill LSU State Field • Baton Rouge, Louisiana W 7–6
September 27 Washington (MD) Maryland Byrd Stadium • College Park, Maryland W 23–0
September 27 Duke North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, North Carolina W 14–0
September 27 Rhodes Sewanee McGee Field • Sewanee, Tennessee W 7–0
September 27 Erskine South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina W 47–0
September 27 Louisiana-Lafayette Tulane Second Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana W 14–0
September 27 Henderson-Brown Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee W 13–0
September 27 Hampden-Sydney Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, Virginia W 13–9
September 27 Emory & Henry VMI Lexington, Virginia W 39–0
September 27 Richmond Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia W 28–0
September 27 Roanoke Washington & Lee Wilson Field • Lexington, Virginia W 34–0

Week Three

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 4 Alabama Furman Manly Field • Greenville, South Carolina W 20–0
October 4 Clemson Auburn Drake Field • Auburn, Alabama AUB 13–0
October 4 Rollins Florida Fleming Field • Gainesville, Florida W 77–0
October 4 South Carolina Georgia Sanford Field • Athens, Georgia UGA 18–0
October 4 VMI Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta GT 3–0
October 4 Louisville Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, Kentucky W 29–0
October 4 Louisiana-Lafayette LSU State Field • Baton Rouge, Louisiana W 31–7
October 4 Arkansas State Ole Miss Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, Mississippi W 10–7
October 4 Millsaps Mississippi A&M Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, Mississippi W 28–7
October 4 North Carolina Yale Yale Bowl • New Haven, Connecticut L 27–0
October 4 North Carolina State Penn State New Beaver Field • University Park, Pennsylvania L 51–6
October 4 Emory & Henry Tennessee Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee W 27–0
October 4 Mississippi College Tulane Second Tulane Stadium • New Orleans W 32–7
October 4 Birmingham–Southern Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee W 61–0
October 4 Virginia Harvard Harvard Stadium • Boston, Massachusetts L 14–0
October 4 Hampden-Sydney Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia W 10–0
October 4 Maryland Washington & Lee Washington, D. C. W&L 19–7

Week Four

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 11 Mississippi College Alabama Denny Field • Tuscaloosa, Alabama W 51–0
October 11 Auburn Virginia Tech Richmond, Virginia T 0–0
October 11 Presbyterian Clemson Riggs Field • Calhoun, South Carolina W 14–0
October 11 Florida Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta T 7–7
October 11 Georgia Yale Yale Bowl • New Haven, Connecticut L 7–6
October 11 Georgetown (KY) Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, Kentucky W 42–0
October 11 LSU Indiana Indianapolis W 20–14
October 11 Rhodes Ole Miss Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, Mississippi W 7–0
October 11 Ouachita Mississippi A&M Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, Mississippi L 12–0
October 11 Duke North Carolina Emerson Field • Chapel Hill, North Carolina W 6–0
October 11 North Carolina State South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina SCAR 10–0
October 11 Sewanee Texas A&M Dallas, Texas L 7–0
October 11 Maryville Tennessee Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee W 28–10
October 11 Louisiana Tech Tulane Second Tulane Stadium • New Orleans W 42–12
October 11 Quantico Marines Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee T 13–13 16,000 [2]
October 11 Randolph-Macon Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, Virginia W 26–6
October 11 Roanoke VMI Lexington, Virginia W 28–0
October 11 Wake Forest Washington & Lee Wilson Field • Lexington, Virginia L 10–8

Week Five

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 16 North Carolina North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, North Carolina UNC 10–0
October 17 Presbyterian South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina W 29–0
October 18 Sewanee Alabama Rickwood Field • Birmingham, Alabama ALA 14–0
October 18 Howard Auburn Drake Field • Auburn, Alabama W 17–0
October 18 Wake Forest Florida Plant Field • Tampa, Florida W 34–0
October 18 Furman Georgia Augusta, Georgia W 23–0
October 18 Penn State Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta W 15–13
October 18 LSU Rice Houston W 12–0
October 18 Virginia Tech Maryland Washington, D. C. VT 12–0
October 18 Ole Miss Mississippi A&M Jackson, Mississippi MSA&M 20–0
October 18 Carson-Newman Tennessee Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee W 13–0
October 18 Vanderbilt Tulane Second Tulane Stadium • New Orleans TUL 21–13 13,000
October 18 VMI Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, Virginia UVA 13–0
October 18 Washington & Lee Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, Kentucky W&L 10–7

Week Six

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 23 Clemson South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina SCAR 3–0
October 25 Alabama Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta ALA 14–0
October 25 LSU Auburn Rickwood Field • Birmingham, Alabama AUB 3–0
October 25 Florida Texas Clark Field • Austin, Texas T 7–7
October 25 Sewanee Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, Kentucky UK 7–0
October 25 Maryland North Carolina Emerson Field • Chapel Hill, North Carolina MD 6–0
October 25 Ole Miss Arkansas Kavanaugh Field • Little Rock, Arkansas L 20–0
October 25 Mississippi A&M Tennessee Memphis, Tennessee MSA&M 7–2
October 25 Spring Hill Tulane Second Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana W 33–0
October 25 Georgia Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee UGA 3–0
October 25 Virginia Penn Franklin Field • Philadelphia L 27–0
October 25 North Carolina State VMI Richmond, Virginia VMI 17–7
October 25 Virginia Tech Washington & Lee Lynchburg, Virginia T 0–0

Week Seven

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 29 South Carolina The Citadel County Fairgrounds • Orangeburg, South Carolina W 14–3
November 1 Ole Miss Alabama Montgomery, Alabama ALA 61–0
November 1 Tennessee Georgia Sanford Field • Athens, Georgia UGA 33–0
November 1 Florida Southern Florida Fleming Field • Gainesville, Florida W 26–0
November 1 Georgia Tech Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana L 34–3
November 1 Centre Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, Kentucky L 7–0
November 1 LSU Arkansas Fair Grounds Field • Shreveport, Louisiana L 10–7
November 1 Catholic Maryland Byrd Stadium • College Park, Maryland T 0–0
November 1 Davidson North Carolina State Pinehurst, North Carolina T 10–10
November 1 Sewanee Oglethorpe L 7–0
November 1 South Carolina North Carolina Emerson Field • Chapel Hill, North Carolina SCAR 10–7
November 1 Mississippi A&M Tulane Second Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana MSA&M 14–6
November 1 Auburn Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee VAN 13–0
November 1 Virginia Tech Clemson Riggs Field • Calhoun, South Carolina VT 50–6
November 1 Washington & Lee Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, Virginia W&L 20–7

Week Eight

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 8 Kentucky Alabama Denny Field • Tuscaloosa, Alabama ALA 42–7
November 8 Tulane Auburn Montgomery, Alabama TUL 14–6
November 8 Clemson Davidson Charlotte, North Carolina L 7–0
November 8 Florida Army Michie Stadium • West Point, New York L 14–7
November 8 Georgia Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, Virginia UGA 7–0
November 8 LSU Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta GT 28–7
November 8 Maryland Yale Yale Bowl • New Haven, Connecticut L 47–0
November 8 North Carolina VMI Richmond, Virginia VMI 9–0
November 8 North Carolina State Virginia Tech Norfolk, Virginia NCST 6–3
November 8 Ole Miss Sewanee Memphis, Tennessee SEW 21–0
November 8 Furman South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina L 10–0
November 8 Centre Tennessee Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee L 32–0
November 8 Mississippi A&M Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee VAN 18–0
November 8 The Citadel Washington & Lee Wilson Field • Lexington, Virginia W 32–7

Week Nine

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 14 Florida Mercer Macon, Georgia L 10–0
November 15 Centre Alabama Rickwood Field • Birmingham, Alabama L 17–0
November 15 Georgia Auburn McClung Stadium • Columbus, Georgia UGA 6–0
November 15 Clemson The Citadel Anderson, South Carolina L 20–0
November 17 Florida Florida-Southern Lakeland, Florida W 53–0
November 17 Georgia Tech Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, Kentucky T 3–3
November 15 Northwestern State LSU State Field • Baton Rouge, Louisiana W 40–0
November 15 Mississippi College Mississippi A&M Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, Mississippi W 7–6
November 15 Maryland North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, North Carolina T 0–0
November 15 North Carolina Davidson Davidson, North Carolina W 6–0
November 15 Ole Miss Furman Manly Field • Greenville, South Carolina L 7–2
November 15 Sewanee South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina SEW 10–0
November 15 Tennessee Tulane Second Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana TUL 26–7
November 15 Vanderbilt Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta VAN 3–0
November 15 Virginia Tech Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, Virginia UVA 6–0
November 15 Washington & Lee West Virginia Charleston, West Virginia L 6–0

Week Ten

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 22 Mississippi A&M Florida Cramton Bowl • Montgomery, Alabama FLA 27–0
November 22 Mississippi College Ole Miss Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, Mississippi W 10–6
November 22 Vanderbilt Minnesota Memorial Stadium • Minneapolis W 16–0 23,000 [3]
November 22 Hampden-Sydney VMI Lexington, Virginia W 25–0
November 22 Wake Forest North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, North Carolina L 12–0

Week Eleven

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 27 Georgia Alabama Rickwood Field • Birmingham, Alabama ALA 33–0
November 27 Auburn Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta GT 7–0
November 27 Furman Clemson Riggs Field • Calhoun, South Carolina L 3–0
November 27 Drake Florida Fleming Field • Gainesville, Florida W 10–0
November 27 Maryland Johns Hopkins Baltimore T 0–0
November 27 Ole Miss Millsaps Jackson, Mississippi W 7–0
November 27 North Carolina Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, Virginia UVA 7–0
November 27 Kentucky Tennessee Shields–Watkins Field • Knoxville, Tennessee UK 27–6
November 27 Wake Forest South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina W 7–0
November 27 Tulane LSU Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, Louisiana TUL 13–0
November 27 VMI Virginia Tech Roanoke, Virginia T 0–0
November 27 Washington & Lee North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, North Carolina W&L 34–0
November 29 Georgia Centre Danville, Kentucky L 14–7
November 29 Sewanee Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, Tennessee SEW 16–0 [4]

Week Twelve

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Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
December 6 Washington & Lee Florida Barrs Field • Jacksonville, Florida FLA 16–6
December 6 Kentucky West Virginia Wesleyan Charleston, West Virginia L 24–7

Awards and honors

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All-Americans

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Main article: 1924 College Football All-America Team

All-Southern team

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Main article: 1924 College Football All-Southern Team

The following includes the composite All-Southern team compiled by the Atlanta Journal.[5] C2 refers to another composite.

Position Name First-team selectors Team
QB Edgar C. Jones AJ, C2 Florida
HB Pooley Hubert AJ, C2 Alabama
HB Gil Reese AJ, C2 Vanderbilt
FB Doug Wycoff AJ, C2 Georgia Tech
E Hek Wakefield AJ, C2 Vanderbilt
T Bob Rives AJ, C2 Vanderbilt
G Goldy Goldstein AJ, C2 Florida
C Fats Lawrence AJ, C2 Auburn
C Clyde Propst AJ Alabama
T Jim Taylor AJ, C2 Georgia
E Smack Thompson AJ, C2 Georgia

References

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  1. ^ a b "1924 Southern Conference Year Summary".
  2. ^   "Vanderbilt Ties Marines; 16,000 Fans See Battle". The Washington Post. October 12, 1924. ProQuest 149420159.
  3. ^   "Vanderbilt Jolts Minnesota, 10-0". Cleveland Plain Dealer. November 23, 1924.
  4. ^ "Sewanee 16, Vandy 0". The Sewanee Purple. December 3, 1924. hdl:11005/1208.
  5. ^   "Atlanta Journals Picks S. I. C. All Star Team". Times-Picayune. December 8, 1924.
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