1910 college football season

American college football season August 2023 1910 Michigan - Penn 1910.png Michigan vs. Penn Harvard Not awarded until 1935 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, 1980 and 2003.http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/DI/2009/2009FBS.pdf Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book 70 The National Collegiate Athletic Association August 2009 Indianapolis, IN 2009-10-16 Harvard claims a national championship for the 1910 season. Auburn also claims a national title based on a selection in Richard Billingsley's unrevised original math system. Rules thumb|right|300px|Cartoon by Ryan Walker on the ongoing attempt to make a brutal sport more effete through rules changes. Rule changes were made prior to the 1910 season to permit more use of the forward pass, with complicated limitations:"New Football As Walter Camp Sees It", New York Times, September 15, 1910 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. Games were now played as four quarters, each 15 minutes long, rather than two halves of 35 minutes eachhttps://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-times-features-of-new-football/159951924/ Features of New Football Rules Davenport Daily Times Davenport, Iowa 8 September 21, 1910 November 29, 2024 newspapers.com Other rules in 1910 were:The History of American Football: Its Great Teams, Players, and Coaches https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica00danz registration Danzig Allison 1956 Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 70–71 November 2024 Cited source discusses 1912 onward Field 110 yards in length Kickoff made from midfield Three downs to gain ten yards Touchdown worth 5 points Field goal worth 3 points The season ran from September 24 until Thanksgiving Day (November 24)."Football Under New Rules Starts To-Day", New York Times, September 24, 1910 Prior to Thanksgiving, the season's death toll was 22; the previous season's was 30.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1GdXAAAAIBAJ&pg=6497%2C3118092 Eugene Daily Guard Oregon Death toll of football season November 23, 1910 6 Conference and program changes The Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference (CFAC) changed its name to the Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference (RMFAC, now just the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) in 1910 after expanding into Utah. Conference changes School 1909 Conference 1910 Conference The Citadel BulldogsIndependent SIAA Denver Pioneers Independent Rocky Mountain Howard Bulldogs Independent SIAA Indiana State Normal Fightin' Teachers Independent Dropped ProgramLouisville CardinalsProgram Established Independent Utah Utes Independent Rocky Mountain Program changes Arkansas changed its nickname from the Cardinals to the current Razorbacks. Conference standings Major conference standings Independents Minor conferences ConferenceChampion(s)Record Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Kansas State Agricultural 4–0 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Alma 1–0 Ohio Athletic Conference Oberlin 3–0–1 Minor conference standings Awards and honors All-Americans 1910 College Football All-America Team The consensus All-America team included Walter Camp's selections: PositionNameHeightWeight (lbs.)ClassHometownTeamQBEarl Sprackling5'9"150Jr.Cleveland, OhioBrownHBPercy WendellSo.Roxbury, MassachusettsHarvardHBTalbot PendletonPrincetonFBLeroy MercerSo.PennEStanfield WellsJr.Massillon, OhioMichiganTRobert McKaySr.HarvardGAlbert Benbrook240Sr.Chicago, IllinoisMichiganCErnest CozensSr.PennGBob FisherJr.Boston, MassachusettsHarvardTJames WalkerMinnesotaEJohn KilpatrickYale References