1982 Harvard Crimson football team

1982 Harvard Crimson football
Ivy League co-champion
ConferenceIvy League
Record7–3 (5–2 Ivy)
Head coach
CaptainGreg Brown
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1981
1983 →
1982 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard + 5 2 0 7 3 0
Penn + 5 2 0 7 3 0
Dartmouth + 5 2 0 5 5 0
Princeton 3 4 0 3 7 0
Yale 3 4 0 4 6 0
Brown 3 4 0 5 5 0
Cornell 3 4 0 4 6 0
Columbia 1 6 0 1 9 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1982 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Crimson were one of three co-champions of the Ivy League.

In their 12th year under head coach Joe Restic, the Crimson compiled a 7–3 record and outscored opponents 259 to 136. Greg Brown was the team captain.[1]

Harvard's 5–2 conference record put it in a three-way tie atop the Ivy League standings. The Crimson outscored Ivy opponents 191 to 88.[2] Despite having the best in-conference and overall point differentials of the three, Harvard lost its head-to-head matchups against both of its co-champions, Dartmouth and Penn.

This was Harvard's first year in Division I-AA, after having competed in the top-level Division I-A and its predecessors since 1873.

Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

  1. ^ "Football Record Book: Year-by-Year Results" (PDF). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  2. ^ "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 30. Retrieved July 10, 2020.