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1924 Southern Conference football season

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League
  
NCAA

Number of teams
  
22

Sport
  
College football

Season champions
  
Alabama

Duration
  
September 20, 1924 through December 6, 1924

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).

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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.

Results and team statistics

Key

PPG = Average of points scored per game
PAG = Average of points allowed per game

Regular season

SoCon teams in bold.

All-Americans

  • E - Henry "Hek" Wakefield, Vanderbilt (WC-2; INS; NEA; LP-1; BE-1; NB-1; DW-1; WE-3; BC)
  • T - Jim Taylor, Georgia (NB-3)
  • G - Bill Buckler, Alabama (NB-3)
  • G - Walt Godwin, Georgia Tech (NB-3)
  • C - Clyde Propst, Alabama (LP-2)
  • HB - Gil Reese, Vanderbilt (NB-3)
  • FB - Doug Wycoff, Georgia Tech (ASM-3; LP-1 [hb]; NB-2; DW-2; WE-3)
  • All-Southern team

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

    References

    1924 Southern Conference football season Wikipedia