The 1924 Yale Bulldogs football team represented

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in the

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. The Bulldogs opened the season with victories over North Carolina and Georgia and concluded the season with victories over rivals Princeton and Yale. The team finished with an undefeated 6–0–2 record under seventh-year head coach

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. The two ties were against Dartmouth and Army. Yale end Richard Luman was named a consensus selection for the

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, having been so honored by the All-America Board and the

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. Other Yale players receiving first-team All-American honors in 1924 were center

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(All-America Board, ''Football World'', ''All-Sports Magazine'', and

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), halfback Ducky Pond (Newspaper Editors Association and Billy Evans),''ESPN College Football Encyclopedia'', p. 1156 and tackle

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(Lawrence Perry).

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