The 1924 Connecticut Aggies football team represented

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, now the University of Connecticut, in the

1924 college football season 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 bot ...

. The Aggies were led by second year head coach

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, and completed the season with a record of 6–0–2. The Aggies were members of the

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and went 4–0 in conference games, claiming their first conference championship. ''

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'' said the team was one of the best in the nation, and the defense was the top in the nation, giving up only 13 points all season. The Aggies defeated rival

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for the first time.

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