1980-81

September 17: The water polo team plays its first varsity game, crushing New Hampshire, 19-1, with two women, Caroline Marnock and Kelley Laing-Runay, on its roster because there is no women's program.

October 4: The football team stuns Army, 15-10, to up its record to 3-0. Coach Joe Restic is rumoured to be heading to Notre Dame to replace the retiring Dan Devine.

November 14-15: The women's soccer squad beats the University of Northern Colorado, 3-1, in the opening round of the national tournament before succumbing to Cortland St., 3-0, in the semifinals.

November 23: ABC televises the Harvard-Yale Game, won by the Eli gridders, 14-0. Restic coaches and Crimson QB Brian Buckley starts the Blue-Grey All-Star Classic in December.

January 14: Providence hands the men's hockey team its eighth loss in its last nine games in front of less than 1000 fans at Bright Arena.

February 2: The icemen (6-11) upset fourth-ranked Northeastern in the semifinals of the Beanpot, 10-2, behind defender Mark Fusco and goalie Wade Lau.

February 3: Freshman Monroe Trout's 21 points and 12 rebounds spark the men's basketball team to a 107-94 thrashing of Yale. The win marks the first time the cagers have ever been in first place in the Ivy League, raising the squad's league record to 4-0.

February 9: The icemen upset Boston College, 2-0, in the finals of the 'Pot. Lau is named tournament MVP after turning away all 15 Eagle shots on goal.

February 28: Olympic silver medalist Bobby Hackett swims in the final dual match of his career, winning the 1000-yard and the 500-yard freestyle, as well as anchoring the victorious 400-yard freestyle relay.

March 8: The men's swimming team wins the Eastern championship with a record 583 points.

April 8-11: Harvard hosts the U.S. Indoor Swimming Championships.

May 14-15: Francesca Don Hartig scores six goals despite almost-constant .two-on-one coverage as the women's lacrosse team beats James Madison, 11-4, in the NCAA quarterfinals. The laxwomen fall to Maryland, 5-3, in the semifinals.

May 16: The men's tennis team falls to Pepperdine, 7-2, in its first of many NCAA appearances in the '80s.

May 31: Yale ends Harvard's 18-year winning streak in the Harvard-Yale regatta.