1910 in sports

[American football]

• College football national champions – Harvard Crimson

• Ohio League champions – Shelby Blues and Shelby Tigers

  [Association football]

• Foundation of Corinthians

• The Football League – Aston Villa 53 points, Liverpool 48, Blackburn Rovers 45, Newcastle United 45, Manchester United 45, Sheffield United 42
• FA Cup final – Newcastle United 2–0 Barnsley at Crystal Palace, London
• Manchester United moves from its venue at Bank Street to its present home Old Trafford

• National Championship – Karlsruher FV 1–0 Holstein Kiel at Köln
• Foundation of FC St. Pauli

• Foundation of Bærum SK

• Scottish Football League – Celtic
• Scottish Cup final – Dundee 2–1 Clyde at Ibrox Park
• Ayr United formed following a merger between Ayr Parkhouse and Ayr FC

  [Australian rules football]

• St. Kilda achieves the worst start by a team that did not suffer a winless season, losing its first seventeen games before a huge upset over Carlton. This has been equalled only by Fremantle in 2001 and in 2013.
• Collingwood wins the 14th VFL premiership, defeating Carlton 9.7 to 6.11 at Melbourne Cricket Ground

  [Bandy]

• Championship final – IFK Uppsala 2–0 IFK Stockholm

  [Baseball]

• 17–23 October — Philadelphia Athletics defeats Chicago Cubs to win the 1910 World Series by 4 games to 1

  [Boxing]

• 22 February — Ad Wolgast outlasts Battling Nelson at Point Richmond, California, to win the World Lightweight Championship by a technical knockout after 40 rounds.
• 4 July — in boxing's first "fight of the century", Jack Johnson knocks out the "great white hope" James J. Jeffries in round 15 to retain his World Heavyweight Championship title.
• 15 October — World Middleweight Champion Stanley Ketchel is shot and killed at Conway, Missouri, by Walter Dipley, a jealous farm worker. Ketchel is rated by many boxing historians as the best middleweight ever. The title remains vacant until 1913.

• World Heavyweight Championship – Jack Johnson
• World Light Heavyweight Championship – vacant
• World Middleweight Championship – Stanley Ketchel → vacant
• World Welterweight Championship – vacant
• World Lightweight Championship – Battling Nelson → Ad Wolgast
• World Featherweight Championship – Abe Attell
• World Bantamweight Championship – Monte Attell

  [Canadian football]

• 26 November — 2nd Grey Cup – University of Toronto Varsity Blues 16–7 Hamilton Tigers

  [Cricket]

• County Championship – Kent
• Minor Counties Championship – Norfolk
• Most runs – Johnny Tyldesley 2265 @ 46.22
• Most wickets – Razor Smith 247 @ 13.05
• Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Harry Foster, Alfred Hartley, Charlie Llewellyn, Razor Smith, Frank Woolley

• Sheffield Shield – South Australia
• Most runs – Harry Kortlang 656 @ 131.20
• Most wickets – Jack Saunders 49 @ 17.32

• Bombay Triangular – Europeans shared with Parsees

• Plunket Shield – Auckland

• Currie Cup – not contested

• Inter-Colonial Tournament – Trinidad and Tobago

  [Cycling]

• Octave Lapize wins the 8th Tour de France

  [Figure skating]

• World Men's Champion – Ulrich Salchow
• World Women's Champion – Lily Kronberger
• World Pairs Champions – Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger

  [Golf]

• British Open – James Braid
• US Open – Alex Smith

• British Amateur – John Ball
• US Amateur – William C. Fownes, Jr.

  [Horse racing]

• Grand National – Jenkinstown
• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Winkipop
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Neil Gow
• The Derby – Lemberg
• The Oaks – Rosedrop
• St. Leger Stakes – Swynford

• Melbourne Cup – Comedy King

• Queen's Plate – Parmer

• Irish Grand National – Oniche
• Irish Derby Stakes – Aviator

• Kentucky Derby – Donau
• Preakness Stakes – Layminster
• Belmont Stakes – Sweep

  [Ice hockey]

• 15 March — Montreal Wanderers wins the NHA championship and the Stanley Cup. The club then defeats Berlin Dutchmen in a challenge.

• 5 January — National Hockey Association commences its inaugural season
• 15 January — Canadian Hockey Association disbands. Ottawa and Montreal Shamrocks join the NHA.
• March — Toronto St. Michael's Majors wins the Allan Cup
• December — NHA loses its Cobalt and Haileybury teams, but gains a Quebec team. The Montreal Canadiens are taken over by George Kennedy's Club Athletique Canadien after threatening legal action.

  [Motorsport]

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• 23 March — Oxford wins the 67th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

  [Rugby league]

• Championship – Oldham
• Challenge Cup final – Leeds 26–12 Hull F.C. at Fartown Ground, Huddersfield
• Lancashire League Championship – Oldham
• Yorkshire League Championship – Wakefield Trinity
• Lancashire County Cup – Wigan 22–5 Leigh
• Yorkshire County Cup – Huddersfield 21–0 Batley

• 17 September — the 1910 NSWRFL season culminates in a grand final between South Sydney and Newtown which is drawn 4–4. Newtown are crowned premiers by virtue of being minor premiers.

  [Rugby union]

• France joins the Home Nations Championship which is now called the Five Nations Championship
• 28th Five Nations Championship series is won by England

  [Speed skating]

• Men's All-round Champion – Nikolay Strunnikov

  [Tennis]

• Australian Men's Singles Championship – Rodney Heath defeats Horace Rice 6–4 6–3 6–2

• Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Anthony Wilding defeats Arthur Gore 6–4 7–5 4–6 6–2
• Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers defeats Dora Boothby 6–2 6–2

• French Men's Singles Championship – Maurice Germot defeats François Blanchy: details unknown
• French Women's Singles Championship – Jeanne Matthey defeats Marguerite Broquedis: details unknown

• American Men's Singles Championship – William Larned defeats Tom Bundy 6–1 5–7 6–0 6–8 6–1
• American Women's Singles Championship – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman defeats Louise Hammond 6–4 6–2

• 1910 International Lawn Tennis Challenge – walkover