The 1924 Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels football team was an

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team that represented

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in the

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(SIAA) during 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 ...

. In its first season under head coach

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, the team compiled a 6–3–1 record (5–0 against SIAA opponents), tied with

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for the SIAA championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 140 to 86.

Adrian Maurer Adrian Harold "Sparky" Maurer (April 7, 1901 – May 4, 1943) was an American football player. Oglethorpe University He played college football as a running back for the Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels football team of Oglethorpe University. He wa ...

was the team captain.

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Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels football The Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels football team represented Oglethorpe University in college football. They have not competed since 1941 when World War II shut down all sports in 1942. History Frank B. Anderson established the football and baseb ...

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