1910 NSWRFL season
| 1910 NSWRFL season | |
|---|---|
| League | New South Wales Rugby Football League |
| Duration | April 30 to September 17 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Matches played | 57 |
| Points scored | 1576 |
| Premiers |
 Newtown (1st title) |
| Minor Premiers |
Newtown
|
| Top point-scorer(s) |
 Arthur McCabe (71) |
| Top try-scorer(s) |
 Dally Messenger (18) |
| Second Grade | |
| Number of teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Eastern Suburbs
|
| Runners-up |
Newtown
|
| Third Grade | |
| Number of teams | 16 |
| Premiers | Sydney |
| Runners-up | Rozelle |
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 would stand as Souths’ highest ever score and biggest winning margin in a premiership game for over one hundred years. It was not beaten in the NSWRFL until St. George defeated Canterbury-Bankstown 91–6 on 11 May 1935 – this remains the record score and margin as of 2016.
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.
The League's takings for all matches this year amounted to £13,512, an increase of over £6,000 on the previous season.
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. Also this season St. Luke's Park became the Western Suburbs club's homeground.
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