1924 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team had former US army lieutenant and former college player James Brown as coach and ended with a 2-5-1 record.
In their second and final season under head coach James M. Brown, the Normalites compiled a record of 251 and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 69 to 46. During World War I, he served as an infantry lieutenant in the United States Army, seeing action during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Brown attended Colgate University, where he played college football before graduating in 1916. 251 (23 MIAA) 
