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.

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.

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.

March 13: The ice hockey team holds off Providence, 4-1, for its first ECAC title since 1971.

March 18-19: The icemen top Michigan St., 6-5, 3-3, to advance to the NCAA Final Four.

April 3: The Crimson loses to Wisconsin, 6-2, in the NCAA final. Mark Fusco becomes the first Eastern hockey player to win the Hobey Baker Award.

May 7-8: The baseball team sweeps doubleheaders from Cornell and Army to move into first place in the EIBL.

May 15: A last-minute Linda Bevelander goal helps UMass eliminate the women's lacrosse team, 7-6, in the NCAA quarterfinals.

May 22: The batsmen clinch the EIBL title with a 10-1 win over Navy. The are later eliminated in the NCAA Northeast regional.

July 4: Mark Fusco is named to the 1984 U.S. Olympic team.

July 28: Mike Stenhouse, who graduated in 1980, plays for the Montreal Expos, becoming the first Harvard graduate in the major leagues in eight years.

1983-84

November 12: The football team shuts out Penn, 28-0, to move into a tie for first place in the Ivy League.

November 19: The gridders capture the 100th Game from Yale, 16-7, to clinch a tie of the Ivy title. Freshman Margaret Cimino is critically injured when she is hit by a falling goalpost dragged down by jubilant Crimson fans.

December 2: The men's swimming team loses to Navy, 61-52, breaking its 32-match winning streak.

February 1: Sports finally hits the back page of The Crimson.

February 8: The men's basketball team almost upsets Duke, succumbing, 89-86, in Briggs Cage.

February 24-25: The cagers top Yale, 80-72, to enter a three-way tie the Ivy League lead. They follow with a win over Brown, 80-76.

March 2: Cornell tops the cagers, 76-67, in front of a record Briggs Cage crowd of 2850 people, ending the Crimson's hopes for its first-ever Ivy title.

March 13: Joe Carrabino is named Player of the Year in Ivy League men's basketball.

March 14: The women's water polo team crushes B.C., 22-0, in its first varsity game.

May 6: The men's rugby club wins its first national championship, 12-4, over the University of Colorado.

May 9: The baseball squad claims the EIBL title with a sweep of Princeton, earning a berth in the NCAA regional tourney.

May 12: Pamela Meryl scores a goal with 1:07 remaining in the NCAA quarterfinals, leading UMass over the women's lacrosse team, 5-4.

1984-85

October 13: The field hockey team upends Cornell, 1-0, ending a six-game scoreless skein.

November 10: Penn crushes the football team, 38-7, to end the Crimson's Ivy title hopes. UMass tops the women's soccer team, 1-0, in the NCAA quarterfinals.

November 25: The men's soccer team stuns UConn, 1-0, in the NCAA tournament.

December 2: The booters are topped, 2-0, by UCLA in the NCAA quarterfinals.

January 6: Two streaks are broken on the same day. The men's hockey team has its 10-game winning streak ended and the men's basketball team loses for the first time in nine games.

January 11-12: The men's basketball team sweeps Penn and Princeton on the road--it is only the second sweep of the "Lost Weekend" in Ivy League history.

January 30: The men's tennis team stuns seventh-ranked Trinity, 5-3, at the National Indoor Championships.

February 2-3: The ski team wins its first intercollegiate carnival in 22 years, capturing the Bowdoin Carnival.

February 9: The men's basketball team moves into first place with a 82-76 win over Brown, keyed by Pat Smith's 6-for-6 shooting from the field.

February 11: Men's hockey Coach Bill Cleary wins his 200th career game as Harvard tops B.C. in the consolation game of the 'Pot.

February 15: Men's hockey goalie Grant Blair records his seventh career shutout, tying a Harvard record, in a 3-0 win over Colgate. He will break the mark 11 months later.

February 20: Comedian Bill Murray turns in a 1-1 record in 3-on-3 pickup ball with the women's basketball team.

March 1: Carrabino becomes Harvard's all-time leading scorer in Columbia's 62-58 win over the Crimson.

March 14: Scott Fusco is named ECAC Player of the Year in men's hockey.

March 16: The men's hockey team loses to RPI, 3-1, in the ECAC finals.

March 22-23: The icemen lose to Minnesota Duluth, 4-2, 4-2, in the NCAA quarterfinals.

April 20: Jeff Musselman, who will later pitch in the major leagues for the Toronto Blue Jays, no-hits Penn, 2-1.

May 11: The baseball team sweeps Dartmouth, extending its winning streak to 13 games and forcing a playoff with Princeton for the EIBL title.

May 18: Princeton beats the batsmen, 5-1, to win the EIBL title.

1985-86

September 21: The football team scores seven straight TD's in a 49-17 thrashing of Columbia.

September 28: The gridders top UMass, 10-3, making Restic Harvard's winningest football coach with 79 career wins.

November 9: Scoring three TD's in 41 seconds, the football squad upsets Holy Cross in the "Miracle of the Cross," 28-20.

November 16: Harvard tops Penn, 17-7, to move into a tie for first place in Ivy League football.

November 23: Yale stuns the gridders, 17-7, to deny the Crimson an Ivy title.

November 30: Freshman Neil Phillips hits a bank shot to clinch a 64-62 win over Vermont for the men's basketball team, the first win in the Peter Roby coaching era.

December 4: The women's swimming team breaks Brown's 18-meet Ivy streak, 83-57.

December 7: Scott Fusco sets the all-time Harvard goal-scoring record in an 11-3 win over Cornell.

February 22: The women's basketball team over-comes Cornell, 77-57, to share its first-ever Ivy crown.

March 2: The women cagers cop the Ivy League Tourney with a 75-66 win over Dartmouth.

March 8: Freshman Ed Krayer's first career hat trick eliminates Colgate in the ECAC quarterfinals.

March 29: Mike Donnelly's goal with 2:51 remaining in the NCAA final clinches the championships for Michigan State, 6-5. Scott Fusco is named Hobey Baker Award winner.

May 2-4: Harvard hosts the national championships in water polo.

1986-87

November 15: The men's soccer team beats Yale, 2-1 on penalty kicks, in the NCAA tournament behind the play of goalie Chad Reilly.

November 23: The booters overcome B.U., 2-0, to win the New England regional.

November 30: Harvard tops Hartwick, 3-1, to advance to the men's soccer NCAA Final Four.

December 6: Duke ends the Crimson's dream of an NCAA title, 3-1.

January 9-10: The men's basketball team sweeps Penn and Princeton. The men's hockey team is 15-0.

March 31: The men's hockey team loses out on its bid for an NCAA title, falling to Michigan St. in the semifinals.

June: The men's heavyweight crew wins its third national championship of the '80s.

1987-88

October 11: The football team loses to Cornell, 29-17, on Shaun Hawkins' juggling TD catch in the closing minutes.

November 14: The gridders beat Penn, 31-14, to set up the Harvard-Yale showdown for the Ivy League title.

November 21: Harvard overcomes the freezing cold in the Yale Bowl and the Elis, 14-10, to clinch the Ivy championship. Running back Tony Hinz scores both touchdowns and runs for 161 yards.

November 29: The men's soccer team beats Adelphi, 3-0, to advance to the NCAA Final Four.

December 5: San Diego State beats Harvard, 2-1 on penalty kicks, in the NCAA tournament behind the play of goalie Bryan Finnerty.

March 3: The women's basketball team clinches at least a tie for the Ivy League title with a win over Brown.

March: Michigan State sweeps the men's hockey team out of the NCAA tournament.

June: The men's heavyweight crew wins its fourth national championship of the decade.

1988-89

April 1: Harvard finally wins its first NCAA championship, capping the '80s with the men's hockey team's 4-3 win over Minnesota in the NCAA final in Minneapolis. Ed Krayer beats Robb Stauber with a backhander for the game-winner in overtime. Please see story, page F-11).