| 1910 NSWRFL season | |
| League: | New South Wales Rugby Football League |
| Duration: | April 30 to September 17 |
| No Of Teams: | 8 |
| Matches: | 57 |
| Points: | 1576 |
| Season Champs: | Newtown[1] |
| Season Champs Count: | 1st |
| Season Champ Name: | Premiers |
| League Leaders: | Newtown |
| League Leaders Name: | Minor Premiers |
| Top Scorer: | Dally Messenger (71) |
| Top Try Scorer: | Arthur McCabe (18) |
| Season2: | Second Grade |
| No Of Teams2: | 12 |
| Season Champs2: | Eastern Suburbs |
| Season Champ Name2: | Premiers |
| Second Place2: | Newtown |
| Season3: | Third Grade |
| No Of Teams3: | 16 |
| Season Champs3: | Sydney |
| Season Champ Name3: | Premiers |
| Second Place3: | Rozelle |
| Prevseason Link: | 1909 NSWRFL season |
| Prevseason Year: | 1909 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1911 NSWRFL season |
| Nextseason Year: | 1911 |
The 1910 NSWRFL season was the third season of the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership, Sydney’s top-level rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Eight teams from across the city contested during the season for the premiership and the Royal Agricultural Society Challenge Shield. During the season, many of the league’s top players took part in matches of the 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia.
On 23 July 1910 at the Sydney Showground the South Sydney club defeated Western Suburbs 67–0. This still stands as Souths’ highest ever score and biggest winning margin in a premiership game.[2] It was not beaten in the NSWRFL until 11 May 1935 when St. George defeated Canterbury-Bankstown 91–6, which remains the record score and margin as of 2022.[3]
During the season Annandale’s Ray, Roy, Rex and Bernard Norman became the first set of four brothers to play in the same NSWRFL side.[4]
The League's takings for all matches this year amounted to £13,512, an increase of over £6,000 on the previous season.[5] 1910 was the first season where the NSFWRFL had more people in attendance than Rugby Union.[6]
With the loss of Cumberland at the end of the 1908 season, the league remained with eight teams; a preferable outcome since no byes would be needed. However by the end of the 1909 season, interest for a local Newcastle competition as well as the difficulties of longer travel for the Newcastle side saw it pull out of the premiership. As a result, a team from Annandale joined the premiership to leave the competition with eight teams.[7] Also this season St. Luke's Park became the Western Suburbs club's home ground.
Newtown finished on top of the League's ladder at the end of the regular season.
| width=175 | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newtown | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 260 | 92 | +168 | 23 | |
| 2 | South Sydney | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 326 | 109 | +217 | 22 | |
| 3 | Eastern Suburbs | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 248 | 116 | +132 | 20 | |
| 4 | Balmain | 14 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 153 | 190 | -37 | 16 | |
| 5 | Glebe | 14 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 175 | 194 | -19 | 12 | |
| 6 | Annandale | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 145 | 200 | -55 | 11 | |
| 7 | North Sydney | 14 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 146 | 281 | -135 | 6 | |
| 8 | Western Suburbs | 14 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 115 | 386 | -271 | 2 |
| Newtown | Position | South Sydney | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William "Webby" Neill | Frank Twiss | ||
| Charles Russell (Ca./Co.) | WG | Tommy Anderson | |
| Howard Hallett | |||
| CE | Jack Leveson | ||
| Arthur Conlin | |||
| Arthur McCabe | |||
| HB | Arthur Butler | ||
| Bill Spence | |||
| Jim "Barra" Davis | |||
| Ernie Hucker | |||
| SR | Harry Butler | ||
| Johnny Rosewell | |||
| Arthur Hennessy (Ca./Co.) |
Newtown 4 (Goals: Charles Russell 2)
drew with South Sydney Rabbitohs 4 (Goals: Jim Davis 2)
Book: Collis, Ian . Whiticker, Alan . 100 Years of Rugby League . New Holland . 2007 . Chatswood, NSW . 33–34 . 1 . 978-1-74110-463-9 .