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1924 The Citadel Bulldogs football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ22022094 ↗
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The 1924 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1924 college football season. Carl Prause served as head coach for the third season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association and played home games at College Park Stadium in Hampton Park. The first Homecoming day was held at The Citadel on October 25, 1924.

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The public source identifies “1924 The Citadel Bulldogs football team” as american college football season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Citadel, Bulldogs and football.

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This entry incorporates text from “1924 The Citadel Bulldogs football team” 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.