The 1924 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the

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during the

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. In the team's second season under head coach George Cecil Woodruff, the Bulldogs completed the season with a record of 7–3. It included a narrow 7–6 loss to football powerhouse

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. The other losses in the season came in the last two games against

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(SoCon) champion

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and Southern champion

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. Six of the seven wins in the season were

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s. The season was also notable for the victory over Vanderbilt by a single Scrappy Moore

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,' in which All-American Vanderbilt end Lynn Bomar also suffered his career ending injury. Moore's field goal was the last made by a Bulldog until seventeen years later when

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did so against

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with a

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. All-Southerns included

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and tackle Jim Taylor.

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Georgia Bulldogs football seasons

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