1924 college football season
Position Name Height Weight ( lbs . ) Class Hometown Team
QB Harry Stuhldreher 5 ' 7 151 Sr Massillon , Ohio Notre Dame
HB Red Grange 5'11 175 Jr Wheaton , Illinois Illinois
HB Jim Crowley 5'11 162 Sr Green Bay , Wisconsin Notre Dame
FB Elmer Layden 6 ' 0 162 Sr Davenport , Iowa Notre Dame
E Jim Lawson 5'11 190 Sr Long Beach , California Stanford
E Hek Wakefield 5'10 180 Sr Petersburg , Tennessee Vanderbilt
T Ed Weir 6 ' 0 190 Jr Superior , Nebraska Nebraska
G Carl Diehl 6 ' 1 205 Jr Chicago , Illinois Dartmouth
C Edwin C. Horrell 6 ' 2 185 Sr Pasadena , California California
G Joe Pondelik Sr Chicago
T Ed McGinley 5'11 185 Sr Swarthmore , Pennsylvania Penn
E Richard Luman Sr Pinedale , Wyoming Yale
Awards and honors -- All-Americans
Main article : 1924 College Football All-America Team The consensus All-America team included :
The 1924 college football season was the year of the Four Horsemen as the Notre Dame team, coached by Knute Rockne, won all of its games, including the Rose Bowl, to be acclaimed as the best team in the nation. Notre Dame and Stanford were both unbeaten at season's end, with the Fighting Irish winning the Rose Bowl contest 27-10. The Penn Quakers were retroactively awarded a national championship by Parke H. Davis. Red Grange's Illinois team upset Michigan. The Illini were upset by Minnesota, which in turn was upset by Vanderbilt. Fred Russell's Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football dubs 1924 the most eventful season in the history of Vanderbilt football. Centre claimed a southern title in its last season of national relevance, upsetting Wallace Wade's first SoCon champion Alabama team. Alabama would not lose another game until 1927.