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1924 Minneapolis Marines season

national Football League team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ2270690 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1924 Minneapolis Marines season was their fourth in the league and final as the Marines. The team failed to improve on their previous output of 2–5–2, losing six games. They tied for sixteenth place in the league.

Schedule

Standings

Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.

References

Further reading

R.C. Christiansen, Mill City Scrum: The History of Minnesota's First Team in the National Football League. Fargo, ND: Ryan Cornell Christiansen, 2023.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924, 1972, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Minneapolis, Marines and season can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1924 Minneapolis Marines season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.