Sports Year 1924 Crowned Champions Across Disciplines
The 1924 season crowned Washington Senators and New York Giants as league and world champions in baseball while boxing named Dempsey and Tunney as top heavies and welters. Track field, tennis, golf, and football boasted star athletes led by Nurmi, Grange, Tilden, Hagen, and Jones as eras closed and new legends emerged across the United States.
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Washington Senators
Stanley Harris
New York Giants
John J. McGraw
Notre Dame
Washington
Nurmi
Rittola
Tilden
Hornsby
Dempsey
Leonard
Harry Wills
Madden
Tom Gibbons
St. Paul
Kid Norfolk
French Lick
Hagen
Jones
Cyril Walker
Oakland Hills
New York Yankees
Babe” Ruth
Giants
Dazzy Vance
Brooklyn
Providence
Record Year in 1924 Track and Field Produces U S Stars
The 1924 track season, sparked by the Paris Olympics, produced a flood of new champions and record breakers led by Charles Paddock. Paddock equaled the world record in the 100 yards and then set world mark time in the 220 yards at Newark, while James J. Burgess Jr. won the half mile and Ray Baker claimed the mile title.
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Charles Paddock
Los Angeles
James Burgess
West Side
New York
Edward Kirby
Newark
A. C
Ray Baker
Illinois
Iimar Prim
N. Y
Willie Ritola
A.C
Lvan Riley
Tilmore A. C
Hurdies
Herbert Meyer
Newark A. CC
F. Morgan Taylor
Grinnell College
William Plant
de Hart Hubbard
Michigan
Robert L. Juday
Penn Railroad
A. A
Homer Martin
Fred Tootell
Boston
Matt McGrath
Ralph Hills
Princeton
John Leyden
E. F. Meyers
Chicago
Thomas Lieb
Anthony Plansky
Georgetown
Anthony Woostroff
Newark A
Tsilineis A. C
Yale
America
Paris
United States
Coast Star
Pad
James J. Burgess Jr
Ray Watson
Illlinoiss A. C
Ilinois A. C
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Manassa
Cel
Gene Tunney
Ike McTirue
Sulgate
Harry Greb
Pittsburg
Mickey Walker
Elizabeth
Benny Leonard
Johnny Dundee
Ihe
Mee Sullivan
Pelaheedale Martin
Frankie Genaro
Pancho Villa
Manik
E. G. Greathouse
Tom Kirby
Rbem Funk
Nat Melle
Lowell
Mass
Fred Boylstein
Peather
Joe Salas
Jock Williams
Ely
Fidel Labara
Pootball
Penn
Dartmouth
Alabama
Centre College
Stanford
Master Charlie
Stimulus
Sarazen
Wise Counsellor
GOLF
Englewood
N. J
Bobby Jones
Atlanta
Dorothy Campbell Hurd
Walter Hagen
Joe Coble
Philadelphia
Dexter Cummings
Harrison R. Johnston
Minneapolis
Minn
Jack Wenzler
Memphis
Bill Mehrhorn
St. Louis
Mike Brady
Winged Foot
William M. Reckle
Montclair
Marion Hollins
Glenny Collett
William T. Tilden 2d
Robert G. and
Howard
Kinsey
San Francisco
William T. Tilden
Robert G
San
Vincent Richard
Vincent Richards
Francis T. Hunter
New Or
Wallace Scott
University of Washington
Lewis N. White
Louis Thalheimer
University of Texas
Ted Drewes
Cranston Holman
Frank Regan
George Lott Jr
Thomas McGlinn
Kenneth Appel
Orange
Malcolm T. Hill
Henry Johnson
Woburn
Horace Orser
Mises Helen Willis
Berkeley
Cal
Helen Wille
George W. Htman
Marion Z. Jessup
Wilmington
Del
George W. Wightman
Helen Jacobs
Track and Field
Newark A. C
Chester Bowman
Walter Blauberg
Eldred Andrus
Loren Murchison
Clifford Stowers
Boston A. A
Dudley
William McKillop
J. J. Sullivan
H. N. Bates
Newark A.C
William Read
George Douglas
Harvey Stewart
Basil Irwin
Fred Wachsmuth
Macauley Smith
University of Pillsburg
Cornell
Estern
Wisconsin
Butler College
Indianapolis
Ed (Strangler) Lewis
R. L. Vianders
Northfield
C. W. Strack
Colgate
W. D. Wright
Cornel
Perry Martter
Russell Vis
Robin Reed
Oregon Aggies
Byran Hines
Northwestern University
Robert Rowsey
Gary
Ind
Penn State
Arthur Spencer
Cecil Walker
George Chapman
National Road
Charley Winter
Century Road Club of Na Ieprint
Paul Croley
Oe Chess
Frank W. Marshal
International
Jose R. Capablanca
Gymab Astiocs
Frank Kriz
Sgase Odie
York Turn Verein
United States Naval Academy
Vance
Johnson
Cambridge
Grantland Rice
Selotn
Destiny
Paavo Nurmi
Harold Grange
Flying Terrorels
Hobby Jones
U. S&s
Marion
Havers
Hoylake
Whitcombe
Walter Johnson
Yankees
Babe
Soacek
Bagione
Waltermene
Pennsylvania
West Point
Middle West
California
Stagg
Iowa
Minnesota
Grange
Four Horsemen
Ford
Georgia
Helen Wills
Jethy Campbell! Hurd
Gienna Collet
Atlantic
Jovyne Wethered
Miss Collet
James Corman
Channy, Weisemen Ler
Llarold Osborne