1910 in sports

winless season, losing its first seventeen games before a huge upset over Carlton. This has been equalled only by Fremantle in 2001 and Greater Western Sydney in 2013
.

Collingwood wins the 14th VFL premiership, defeating Carlton 9.7 (61) to 6.11 (47) at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)

Bandy

Sweden

Championship final – IFK Uppsala 2–0 IFK Stockholm

Baseball

World Series

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

Boxing

Events

22 February —
World Lightweight Championship
by a technical knockout after 40 rounds.
4 July — in boxing's first "fight of the century",
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.

Lineal world champions[2]

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

Grey Cup

26 November —
University of Toronto Varsity Blues 16–7 Hamilton Tigers

Cricket

England

Kent
Minor Counties Championship – Norfolk

Most runs – Johnny Tyldesley 2265 @ 46.22 (HS 158)
Most wickets – Razor Smith 247 @ 13.05 (BB 8–13)
Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Harry Foster, Alfred Hartley, Charlie Llewellyn, Razor Smith, Frank Woolley

Australia

Sheffield Shield – South Australia

Most runs – Bert Kortlang 656 @ 131.20 (HS 197)
Most wickets –
Jack Saunders
49 @ 17.32 (BB 6–35)

India

Parsees

New Zealand

Plunket Shield – Auckland

South Africa

Currie Cup
– not contested

West Indies

Trinidad and Tobago

Cycling

Tour de France

Octave Lapize (France) wins the 8th Tour de France^[3]

Figure skating

World Figure Skating Championships

World Men's Champion – Ulrich Salchow (Sweden)
World Women's Champion – Lily Kronberger (Hungary)
World Pairs Champions – Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger (Germany)

Golf

Major tournaments

British Open – James Braid^[4]
US Open – Alex Smith

Other tournaments

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

Horse racing

England

Grand National – Jenkinstown
1,000 Guineas Stakes – Winkipop

2,000 Guineas Stakes – Neil Gow

The Derby – Lemberg^[5]
The Oaks – Rosedrop
St. Leger Stakes – Swynford

Australia

Melbourne Cup – Comedy King

Canada

King's Plate – Parmer

Ireland

Irish Grand National – Oniche
Irish Derby Stakes
– Aviator

USA

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

Ice hockey

Stanley Cup

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

Events

5 January — National Hockey Association (NHA) commences its inaugural season
15 January —
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

Rowing

The Boat Race

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

Rugby league

England

Championship – Oldham
Fartown Ground, Huddersfield
(replay, following 7–7 draw at Fartown)
Lancashire League Championship – Oldham
Yorkshire League Championship – Wakefield Trinity
Leigh
Yorkshire County Cup – Huddersfield 21–0 Batley

Australia

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.