1924 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

1924 Vanderbilt Commodores football
Conference	Southern Conference
1924 record	6–3–1 (3–3 SoCon)
Head coach	Dan McGugin (20th year)
Assistant coach	Josh Cody
Assistant coach	Lewie Hardage
Assistant coach	Tom Zerfoss
Offensive scheme	Short-punt
Captain	Tuck Kelly
Home stadium	Dudley Field
Uniform
Seasons ← 1923 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	2	–	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

Week 1: Henderson-Brown at Vanderbilt

1 2 3 4 Total Henderson-Br. 0 0 0 0 0 • Vanderbilt 13 0 0 0 13 Date: September 27 Location: Dudley Field Nashville, TN Sources:

Week 3: Quantico Marines at Vanderbilt

1 2 3 4 Total Quantico Marines 6 0 0 7 13 Vanderbilt 6 7 0 0 13 Date: October 11 Location: Dudley Field Nashville, TN Game attendance: 16,000 Sources:

Week 4: Vanderbilt at Tulane

1 2 3 4 Total Vanderbilt 6 7 0 0 13 • Tulane 7 0 7 7 21 Date: October 18 Location: Tulane Stadium New Orleans, LA Game attendance: 13,000 Referee: Graves (Illinois) Sources:

Week 5: Georgia at Vanderbilt

1 2 3 4 Total • Georgia 0 0 0 3 3 Vanderbilt 0 0 0 0 0 Date: October 25 Location: Dudley Field Nashville, TN Referee: Ed Finlay Sources:

Week 6: Auburn at Vanderbilt

1 2 3 4 Total Auburn 0 0 0 0 0 • Vanderbilt 7 0 6 0 13 Date: November 1 Location: Dudley Field Nashville, TN Sources:

Week 7: Mississippi A & M at Vanderbilt

1 2 3 4 Total Miss. A & M 0 0 0 0 0 • Vanderbilt 6 6 6 0 18 Date: November 8 Location: Dudley Field Nashville, TN Referee: Harry Springer (Penn) Sources:

Week 8: Vanderbilt at Georgia Tech

1 2 3 4 Total • Vanderbilt 3 0 0 0 3 Georgia Tech 0 0 0 0 0 Date: November 15 Location: Grant Field Atlanta, Georgia Sources:

Week 9: Vanderbilt at Minnesota

1 2 3 4 Total • Vanderbilt 6 0 10 0 16 Minnesota 0 0 0 0 0 Date: November 22 Location: Memorial Stadium Minneapolis, MN Game attendance: 23,000 Referee: J. H. Nichols (Oberlin) Sources:

The 1924 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1924 Southern Conference football season. The 1924 season was Dan McGugin's 20th year as head coach. Members of the Southern Conference, the Commodores played six home games in Nashville, Tennessee, at Dudley Field and finished the season with a record of 6–3–1 (3–3 SoCon). Vanderbilt outscored its opponents 150–53. Fred Russell's Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football dubs it "the most eventful season in the history of Vanderbilt football."

Highlights of the year include Vanderbilt's first win over a Northern school, defeating Minnesota 16–0, and its first win in Atlanta over Georgia Tech since 1906, from a single drop-kick by consensus All-American Hek Wakefield. Georgia also beat Vanderbilt for the first time in twenty-seven years, as did Sewanee for the first time in ten as well as last time.

"This was the most eventful season in the history of Vanderbilt football...The Commodores rose from the depths of despair to the heights of joy, then back again. It was the year of a thousand thrills, a thousand sobs" says Fred Russell of the year that was 1924. The Commodores had a stout freshman team the year before, and had just won its third Southern title in a row. Many stayed from the 1923 team, including two All-American ends in Lynn Bomar and Hek Wakefield. Bomar played halfback this year, and was expected to receive All-American honors at that position by season's end. All-Southern players at halfback in Gil Reese, and on the line in Bob Rives and captain Tuck Kelly, also returned for the 1924 campaign.

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