| 1910 college football season | |||
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| Total # of teams | 75[1] | ||
| Number of bowls | 0 | ||
| Champions | Harvard Crimson | ||
| Heisman | Not awarded until 1935 | ||
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The 1910 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Pittsburgh as national champions.[2] Only Harvard claims a national championship for the 1910 season.
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Rules [edit]
Rule changes were made prior to the 1910 season to permit more use of the forward pass, with complicated limitations:[3]
- 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.[4]
The season ran from September 24 until Thanksgiving Day (November 24).[5]
Conference standings [edit]
The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:
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See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1910.htm
- ^ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book. Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2009-08. pp. 76–77. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Football Under New Rules Starts To-Day", New York Times, September 24, 1910
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