1924 College Football All-America Team
The 1924 College Football All-America team wasd composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1924. The six selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1924 season are:
Red Grange, "The Galloping Ghost", was 1924's only unanimous All-American.
Vanderbilt's Hek Wakefield was the South's lone consensus All-American.
Harold Edward "Red" Grange, nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American professional football halfback who played for the Chicago Bears and the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League (NFL).
Grange in 1925
Grange in 1923
Grange on the October 5, 1925 cover of Time magazine
Statue of Grange outside Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois