# 1924 United States Olympic trials (track and field)

The 1924 United States Olympic trials for track and field were held from 13–14 June 1924 and decided the United States team for the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. As women's athletics was not added to the Olympic programme until 1928, only a men's trials was held. The competitions took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard Stadium.
The meeting was separate from the 1924 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, which were held later in September in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
A maximum of four athletes could be named to the team per event, unlike the three-athlete-limit of future Olympics. Also unlike future Olympic trials, the 1924 trials results were not completely determinative of the team; in several cases athletes who finished outside of the top 4 were selected based on consistency of previous results.
Unlike other events, six Americans were allowed to compete in the 1924 Olympic marathon. Five of those spots were decided from the 1924 Boston Marathon, including Clarence DeMar (1st), Charles Mellor (2nd), Frank Wendling (3rd), William Churchill (4th), and Ralph Williams (7th). The final runner, Frank Zuna, was selected based on his results from a marathon in Baltimore instead.

## Results
### Men

Key:
| Event | First | First | Second | Second | Third | Third | Fourth | Fourth |
| 100 m | Chester Bowman | 10.6 | Charles Paddock | 10.6 e | none awarded | none awarded | Frank Hussey | 10.7 e |
| 100 m | Chester Bowman | 10.6 | Jackson Scholz | 10.6 e | none awarded | none awarded | Frank Hussey | 10.7 e |
| 200 m | Jackson Scholz | 21.0 | Bayes Norton | 21.2 e | George Hill | 21.3 e | Louis Clarke | 21.4 e |
| 400 m | J. Coard Taylor | 48.1 | Horatio Fitch | 48.4 e | Ray Robertson | 48.4 e | Eric Wilson | 48.5 e |
| 800 m | William Richardson | 1:53.6 | Schuyler Enck | 1:53.7 e | Ray Dodge | 1:53.9 e | Ray Watson | 1:55 e |
| 1500 m | Ray Buker | 3:55.8 | Lloyd Hahn | 3:56.8 e | William Spencer | 3:57.1 e | James Connolly |
| 5000 m | John Romig | 15:15.7 | Harold Phelps | 15:18.5 e | Rilus Doolittle | 15:19.2 e | William Cox | |
| 10,000 m | Verne Booth | 32:14.6 | John Gray | 32:16.5 e | August Fager | | Wayne Johnson | |
| 110 m hurdles | George Guthrie | 15.0 | Daniel Kinsey | | Franklin Johnson | | Karl Anderson | |
| 400 m hurdles | F. Morgan Taylor | 52.6 | Charles Brookins | 52.8 e | Chan Coulter | | Ivan Riley | |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Russell Payne | 9:47.1 | Marvin Rick | 9:48.0 e | Michael Devaney | 10:00.0 e | Jens Jensen | |
| High jump | Tom Poor | 1.92 m | none awarded | none awarded | Sam Campbell | 1.89 m | none awarded | none awarded |
| High jump | Harold Osborn | 1.92 m | none awarded | none awarded | Robert Juday | 1.89 m | none awarded | none awarded |
| High jump | Harold Osborn | 1.92 m | none awarded | none awarded | Justin Russell | 1.89 m | none awarded | none awarded |
| Pole vault | Glenn Graham | 3.96 m | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded |
| Pole vault | James Brooker | 3.96 m | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded |
| Pole vault | Ralph Spearow | 3.96 m | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded |
| Pole vault | Lee Barnes | 3.96 m | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded |
| Long jump | William DeHart Hubbard | 7.63 m | Edward Gourdin | 7.28 m | Albert Rose | 7.19 m | William Dowding | 7.12 m |
| Triple jump | Merwin Graham | 14.32 m | MacCullough Keeble | 14.21 m | Earl Wilson | 14.13 m | Homer Martin | 14.12 m |
| Shot put | Clarence Houser | 15.22 m | Glenn Hartranft | 14.94 m | Ralph Hills | 14.93 m | Norman Anderson | 14.83 m |
| Discus throw | Thomas Lieb | 46.78 m | Augustus Pope | 45.97 m | Charles Ashton | 44.07 m | Clarence Houser | 43.84 m |
| Hammer throw | Fredrick Tootell | 50.80 m | Matthew McGrath | 50.54 m | Jack Merchant | 49.58 m | James McEachern | 46.81 m |
| Javelin throw | William Neufeld | 58.25 m | Lee Priester | 56.58 m | Homer Whelchel | 55.65 m | William Healy | 55.34 m |
| Decathlon | Harold Osborn | 7377.38 pts | Emerson Norton | 7023.94 pts | Harry Frieda | 6842.58 pts | Otto Anderson | 6636.02 |