1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
National champion
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 27–10 vs. Stanford
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–0
Head coach
Offensive schemeNotre Dame Box
Base defense7–2–2
CaptainAdam Walsh
Home stadiumCartier Field
Seasons
← 1923
1925 →
1924 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Notre Dame     10 0 0
Kirksville Osteopaths     6 0 0
Central Michigan     7 1 0
Western State Normal (MI)     5 1 1
John Carroll     7 2 0
Haskell     7 2 1
Indiana State     6 2 0
Loyola (IL)     5 2 2
Marquette     5 2 0
Dayton     7 3 0
Saint Louis     6 3 0
Michigan Agricultural     5 3 0
Wabash     5 4 0
Butler     4 5 0
Detroit     4 5 0
Muncie Normal     1 3 0
Michigan Mines     0 2 1
Kent State     0 4 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team was an American football team that represented the University of Notre Dame as an independent during the 1924 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Knute Rockne, the Fighting Irish compiled a perfect 10–0 record, defeated Stanford in the 1925 Rose Bowl, and outscored opponents by a total of 285 to 54.[1] The team was led by the legendary backfield known as the "Four Horsemen" consisting of quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, halfbacks Don Miller and Jim Crowley, and fullback Elmer Layden.

Notre Dame was ranked No. 1 in the Dickinson System's contemporary final ratings in the system's first year of existence.[2] In 1926 the team was retroactively awarded the Rissman Trophy for this ranking.[2]

In later analyses, Notre Dame was rated as the consensus 1924 national champion by the Berryman QPRS system, Billingsley Report, Boand System, College Football Researchers Association, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, Poling System, and Jeff Sagarin.[3]

Three of the Four Horsemen, Stuhldreher, Crowley, and Layden, were consensus first-team picks on the 1924 All-America college football team.[4] Other notable players included tackle Joe Bach and center Adam Walsh. The Four Horsemen, Walsh, and coach Rockne were all later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

The 1925 Rose Bowl was Notre Dame's last bowl appearance until the 1969 season. The Fighting Irish played their home games at Cartier Field.

  1. ^ "1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Dickinson, Frank G. (February 1941). Dickinson's Football Ratings — from Grange to Harmon. Omaha, Nebraska: What's What Publishing Company.
  3. ^ 2018 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2018. p. 113. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  4. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  5. ^ "Knute Rockne". National Football Foundation. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  6. ^ "Jim Crowley". National Football Foundation. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  7. ^ "Elmer Layden". National Football Foundation. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  8. ^ "Don Miller". National Football Foundation. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  9. ^ "Harry Stuhldreher". National Football Foundation. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  10. ^ "Adam Walsh". National Football Foundation. Retrieved April 6, 2022.