1981-82

Fall: Women's volleyball starts its first season as a varsity squad.

November 1: The women's soccer team clinches its third Ivy title in four seasons with a 4-3 win over Brown.

November 8: The women booters stun UConn, 2-1, in the Eastern regional final.

November 20: The women's soccer team loses in the AIAW quarterfinals to Central Florida, 2-0.

December 3: Julius Erving and Larry Bird film a Converse commercial in Dillon Field House because of the facility's "professional locker room appearance."

December 4: The NCAA changes Division I-A requirements for football, forcing the Ivy League to drop down to I-AA status.

January 10: Restic reportedly is offered the position of offensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams. He later declines the offer.

February 7: The women's squash team clinches its first national title with a 6-1 win over perennial powerhouse Princeton. The men's squash team loses to Princeton, 5-4, but would capture its next 72 matches in a row, the second longest winning streak in collegiate athletic history.

February 20: Wrestling Co-Captain Jim Phills pins Yale's Jeff Schlichting to clinch an 18-15 win and the squad's first-ever Ivy title.

March 1: Briggs Cage opens after a six-month delay caused by striking workers.

March 4: The wrestling team is stripped of its title because of a failure of proper weigh-in procedures in its 24-16 win over Columbia. As a result, the title is thrown to the Lions.

March 6: The icemen's win over Dartmouth clinches their first ECAC playoff berth since 1976.

March 9: Lau's 35 saves lead Harvard over Boston College, 2-0, in the ECAC quarterfinals.

March 12: The icemen stun Clarkson, 7-1, in the ECAC semifinals.