The 1910 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard

Harvard Crimson football

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 and Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Panthers football

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 as national champions

NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship

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. Only Harvard claims a national championship for the 1910 season.

Rules

Rule changes were made prior to the 1910 season to permit more use of the forward pass, with complicated limitations:

• 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. .

The season ran from September 24 until Thanksgiving Day (November 24).

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings: