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American college football season
The
1910 college football season
had no clear-cut champion, with the
Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book
listing
Harvard
and
Pittsburgh
as having been retrospectively selected
national champions
, by four "major selectors" in about 1927, 1947, 1970 and 1980.
[1]
Harvard claims a national championship for the 1910 season.
Rules
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Rule changes were made prior to the 1910 season to permit more use of the forward pass, with complicated limitations:
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- The only eligible receivers were the two ends, who could catch a pass no more than 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage, and could not be interfered with until the ball was caught.
- A legal pass could not be thrown unless the quarterback was at least 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage and the rest of the players, except the two ends, were at least 1 yard behind the scrimmage line.
- On kickoffs and punts, the kicking team's players could not be touched until they had advanced 20 yards
- Flying tackles were outlawed, and "the man making a tackle must have at least one foot on the ground".
- The ballcarrier could no longer be aided in any way by his teammates.
Other rules in 1910 were:
- Field 110 yards in length
- Kickoff made from midfield
- Three downs to gain ten yards
- Touchdown worth
5 points
- Field goal worth
3 points
- Game time based on agreement of the teams, not to exceed two 45 minute halves.
[3]
The season ran from September 24 until
Thanksgiving Day
(November 24).
[4]
Prior to Thanksgiving, the season's death toll was 22; the
previous season's
was thirty.
[5]
Conference and program changes
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Conference changes
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Program changes
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- Arkansas
changed its nickname from the
Cardinals
to the current
Razorbacks
.
Conference standings
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Major conference standings
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For this article, major conferences defined as those including multiple state
flagship
public universities.
Independents
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Minor conferences
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Minor conference standings
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Awards and honors
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All-Americans
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The consensus
All-America
team included
Walter Camp
's selections:
References
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- ^
Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book
(PDF)
. Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70
. Retrieved
October 16,
2009
.
- ^
"New Football As Walter Camp Sees It"
,
New York Times
, September 15, 1910
- ^
Danzig, Allison (1956).
The History of American Football: Its Great Teams, Players, and Coaches
. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. pp.
70?71
.
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"Football Under New Rules Starts To-Day",
New York Times
, September 24, 1910
- ^
"Death toll of football season"
.
Eugene Daily Guard
. (Oregon). November 23, 1910. p. 6.