March 18: The men's fencing squad finishes fifth at the NCAA championships.

March 19-20: Wisconsin eliminates the icemen, 4-3, 6-1, in the NCAA quarterfinals.

May 13: The women's lacrosse team loses to Temple, 13-6, in the NCAA semifinals.

May 23: Bill McCurdy resigns after 30 years at the helm of the Crimson track programs.

June 6: The Radcliffe heavyweight crew wins its first national title.

1982-83

September 26: Don Allard sets a single-game passing record, tossing for 358 yards in the football team's 31-14 pasting of UMass.

October 30: Harvard shuts out Brown, 34-0, to move into a first-place tie with Penn.

November 5: The women's soccer team beats Brown, 2-1, in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

November 13: Penn tops the football team, 23-21, in the last second on a roughing-the-kicker penalty and a Dave Shulman field goal.

November 20: The gridders clinch a tie for the Ivy title with a 45-7 trashing of Yale. A balloon is inflated by MIT students on the field during the game.

November 22: The women's cross country team places fourth at the NCAA championships.

November 23: The men's basketball team beats a Chinese national team, 113-73, in its inaugural game at Briggs Cage.

January 20: Harvard Stadium is named as a site for Olympic soccer games in the summer of 1984.

February 28: The women's ice hockey team receives its first-ever EAIAW playoff bid, but declines it the same day, protesting against prospective-opponent Potsdam State's entrance into the EAIAW the week before.