1924 Southern Conference football season

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1924 Southern Conference football season
League NCAA
Sport College football
Duration September 20, 1924
through December 6, 1924
Number of teams 22
Regular Season
Season champions Alabama
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
Mississippi A&M 3 – 2 – 0     5 – 4 – 0
Sewanee* 3 – 2 – 0     6 – 4 – 0
South Carolina 3 – 2 – 0     7 – 3 – 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
North Carolina 2 – 3 – 0     4 – 5 – 0
Kentucky 2 – 3 – 0     4 – 5 – 0
Maryland 1 – 2 – 1     3 – 3 – 3
Auburn 2 – 4 – 1     4 – 4 – 1
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

The 1924 Southern Conference football season began on September 20. Sewanee and VMI joined the conference this year. Vanderbilt dropped its comembership with the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (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.

Regular season

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

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

Week Two

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

Week Three

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

Week Four

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
October 11 Mississippi College Alabama Denny Field • Tuscaloosa, AL W 51–0
October 11 Auburn Virginia Tech Richmond, VA T 0–0
October 11 Presbyterian Clemson Riggs Field • Calhoun, SC W 14–0
October 11 Florida Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta, GA T 7–7
October 11 Georgia Yale Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT L 7–6
October 11 Georgetown (KY) Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington, KY W 42–0
October 11 LSU Indiana Indianapolis, IN W 20–14
October 11 Rhodes Ole Miss Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, MS W 7–0
October 11 Ouachita Mississippi A&M Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS L 12–0
October 11 Duke North Carolina Emerson Field • Chapel Hill, NC W 6–0
October 11 North Carolina State South Carolina Columbia, SC SCAR 10–0
October 11 Sewanee Texas A&M Dallas, TX L 7–0
October 11 Maryville Tennessee Shields-Watkins Field • Knoxville, TN W 28–10
October 11 Louisiana Tech Tulane Second Tulane Stadium • New Orleans, LA W 42–12
October 11 Quantico Marines Vanderbilt Dudley Field • Nashville, TN T 13–13 16,000 [1]
October 11 Randolph-Macon Virginia Lambeth Field • Charlottesville, VA W 26–6
October 11 Roanoke VMI Lexington, VA W 28–0
October 11 Wake Forest Washington & Lee Wilson Field • Lexington, VA L 10–8

Week Five

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

Week Six

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

Week Seven

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

Week Eight

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

Week Nine

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

Week Ten

Date Visiting team Home team Site Result Attendance Reference
November 22 Mississippi A&M Florida Cramton Bowl • Montgomery, AL FLA 27–0
November 22 Mississippi College Ole Miss Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, MS W 10–6
November 22 Vanderbilt Minnesota Memorial Stadium • Minneapolis, MN W 16–0 23,000 [2]
November 22 Hampden-Sydney VMI Lexington, VA W 25–0
November 22 Wake Forest North Carolina State Riddick Stadium • Raleigh, NC L 12–0

Week Eleven

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

Week Twelve

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

Awards and honors

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 composite All-Southern team compiled by the Atlanta Journal included:[4]

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Edgar C. Jones Jr. Jacksonville, Florida Florida
HB Pooley Hubert 5'10" 190 Jr. Meridian, Mississippi Alabama
HB Gil Reese 155 Jr. Tupelo, Mississippi Vanderbilt
FB Doug Wycoff 6'2" 195 Jr. St. Louis, Missouri Georgia Tech
E Hek Wakefield 5'10" 180 Sr. Petersburg, Tennessee Vanderbilt
T Bob Rives 6'1" 200 Jr. Hopkinsville, Kentucky Vanderbilt
G Goldy Goldstein 6'3" 210 Jr. New Jersey Florida
C Fats Lawrence Sr. Plantersville, Alabama Auburn
C Clyde Propst Sr. Ohatchee, Alabama Alabama
T Jim Taylor Sr. Hazlehurst, Georgia Georgia
E Smack Thompson Jr. Atlanta, Georgia Georgia

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