1910 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1910 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1910 college football season. In its third year under head coach Percy Haughton, the Crimson compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out seven of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 155 to 5.

1910 Harvard Crimson football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–1
Head coach
  • Percy Haughton (3rd season)
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1910 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Pittsburgh    9 0 0
Harvard    9 0 1
Penn    9 1 1
Princeton    7 1 0
Trinity (CT)    7 1 0
Ursinus    6 1 0
Rhode Island State    5 1 1
Lafayette    7 2 0
Army    6 2 0
Brown    7 2 1
Yale    6 2 2
Dartmouth    5 2 0
Cornell    5 2 1
Penn State    5 2 1
Colgate    4 2 1
Swarthmore    5 3 0
Franklin & Marshall    4 3 2
Syracuse    5 4 1
Rutgers    3 2 3
Carlisle    8 6 0
Holy Cross    3 3 2
Temple    3 3 0
Washington & Jefferson    3 3 1
Wesleyan    4 4 1
Geneva    2 5 2
NYU    2 4 1
Dickinson    3 7 0
Lehigh    2 6 1
Bucknell    2 6 0
Vermont    1 5 1
Carnegie Tech    1 6 1
Boston College    0 4 2
Tufts    1 7 1
Villanova    0 4 2

There was no contemporaneous system in 1910 for determining a national champion. However, Harvard was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and Houlgate System, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.:112–114

Three Harvard players were consensus first-team selections on the 1910 All-American football team: halfback Percy Wendell, guard Bob Fisher, and tackle Robert McKay. Other notable players included fullback/halfback Hamilton Corbett (chosen as All-American by Wilton S. Farnsworth of the New York Evening Journal), ends Lawrence Dunlap Smith and Richard Plimpton Lewis, tackle Lothrop "Ted" Withington, and guard Wayland Minot (chosen as first-team All-American by The New York Times).

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