1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Records
The NCAA did not officially start keeping track of blocked shots in women's basketball until 1998 (it had begun doing so in the men's game in 1986). However, Anne Donovan of Old Dominion had twelve blocked shot in a regional game, two more than the official record of ten.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams - automatic
Thirty-six teams were selected to participate in the 1983 NCAA Tournament. Fourteen conferences were eligible for an automatic bid to the 1983 NCAA tournament. (Not all conference records are available for 1983)


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams - at-large
Twenty-two additional teams were selected to complete the thirty-six invitations. (Not all conference records are available for 1983)OR - Opening Round


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by conference
Twenty-two conferences earned an automatic bid. In sixteen cases, the automatic bid was the only representative from the conference. Thirteen at-large teams were selected from six of the conferences. In addition, three independent (not associated with an athletic conference) teams earned at-large bids.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by state
The thirty-six teams represented twenty-four states, plus Washington, D.C.California and Pennsylvania had the most teams with three each. Twenty-six states did not have any teams receiving bids.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, First round
In 1983, the field expanded from 32 to 36 teams. The teams were seeded, and assigned to four geographic regions, with seeds 1-9 in each region. The 8 and 9 seeds in each region played a play-in game, called the opening round (OR). In the opening round and Round 1, the higher seed was given the opportunity to host the first-round game, and all but one of the higher seeds hosted. Missouri was a 4 seed, but unable to host, so the game was played at 5 seed Auburn.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, First round
The following table lists the region, host school, venue and location. The opening round games are denoted with "OR".


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals and Final Four
The Regionals, named for the general location, were held from March 24 to March 27 at these sites:


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals and Final Four
Each regional winner advanced to the Final Four, held April 1 and 3 in Norfolk, Virginia, at the Norfolk Scope.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Record by  conference
Fifteen conferences had more than one bid,  or at least one win in NCAA Tournament play:


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Record by  conference
Eight conferences went 0-1: Big East, East Coast, Gateway, High Country, Ivy League, MAC, Mountain West Athletic, and SWAC


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1983 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the second annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States. This year's event was hosted at the Bob Devaney Sports Center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska. The men's and women's titles would not be held at the same site until 2006.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Stanford topped defending champions Florida by 29 points in the team standings, capturing the Cardinal's first team title.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
The 1983 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships were the second annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I women's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
The women's team championship was won by USC, their first title. The Trojans defeated Trinity (TX) in the final round, 8–1. T


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
he women's singles title was won by Beth Herr from USC, and the women's doubles title was won by Louise Allen and Gretchen Rush from Trinity (TX).


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships, Host site
This year's tournaments were hosted by the University of New Mexico at the Linda Estes Tennis Complex in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The men's and women's tournaments would not be held at the same site until 2006.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 1983 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament was the third year of the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship. It began with 28 teams and ended on December 19 when Hawaiʻi defeated UCLA 3 games to 0 in the NCAA championship match. Hawaiʻi won their second straight title.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
In the consolation match, Stanford defeated Pacific to claim third place.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The Final Four was held in Lexington, Kentucky at the Memorial Coliseum. The championship match attendance of 1,812 remains the lowest attendance ever for an NCAA national championship match.


1983 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, NCAA Tournament records
There are four NCAA tournament records that were set during the 1983 NCAA tournament that have not yet been broken.


1983 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
The 1983 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships were the 53rd NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships to be held. The University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University co-hosted the tournament in Norman, Oklahoma and Stillwater, Oklahoma at the McCasland Field House and Gallagher Hall.


1983 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
Iowa took home the team championship with 155 points and having four individual champions.


1983 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
Mike Sheets of Oklahoma State was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler and Lou Banach of Iowa received the Gorriaran Award.


1983 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
The following polls make up the 1983 NCAA Division I baseball rankings. Baseball America began publishing its poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1981. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.


1983 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Baseball America
Currently, only the final poll from the 1983 season is available.


1983 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball
Currently, only the final poll from the 1983 season is available.


1983 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 1983 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1983. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1983 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the thirty seventh time in 1983, consisted of one team from each of eight regional competitions and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Texas claimed the championship for the fourth time.


1983 NCAA Division I baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1983 season. The NCAA sponsored regional competitions to determine the College World Series participants. Six regionals of four teams and two of six each competed in double-elimination tournaments, with the winners advancing to Omaha. 24 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 12 teams earned at-large selections.


1983 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series
The 1983 season marked the thirty seventh NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Texas claiming their fourth championship with a 4–3 win over Alabama in the final.


1983 NCAA Division I softball season
The 1983 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 1983. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 1983 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 1983 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in Omaha, Nebraska at Seymour Smith Park, ended on May 29, 1983.


1983 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series
The 1983 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 25 to May 29, 1983 in Omaha, Nebraska.


1983 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
NCAA Division I season ERA:0.04 (1 ER/168.0 IP) – Tracy Compton, UCLA Bruins


1983 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
NCAA Division I single game assists:12 – Wende Ward, Fresno State Bulldogs; February 23, 1983


1983 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Freshman class ERA:0.09 (3 ER/219.0 IP) – Darlene Lowery,  South Carolina Gamecocks


1983 NCAA Division I-A football rankings
Two human polls comprised the 1983 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I-A football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason—the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football rankings, Coaches' Poll
Clemson, USC, and Arizona were on probation by the NCAA during the 1983 season; they were therefore ineligible to receive votes in the Coaches' Poll.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season
The 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the University of Miami, led by Bernie Kosar, winning their first national championship over perennial power and top ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season
The Hurricanes' 31–30 win over Nebraska is still talked about as one of the greatest games of all time, not only for its last minute finish, but for its role in changing the face of college football. Miami came into the game ranked No. 5, but losses by No. 2 Texas in the Cotton Bowl and No. 4 Illinois in the Rose Bowl launched them to No. 1 (despite protests from No. 3 Auburn, who played the toughest schedule in the nation that year).


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season
Nebraska scored a touchdown with 48 seconds remaining, putting them within one point of the Hurricanes. Despite knowing a tie would still give Nebraska the national title, Coach Tom Osborne decided to go for two points and the win rather than one point and the tie. Miami was able to hold, snapping Nebraska's 22-game winning streak and launching Miami as a powerhouse program.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season
This Miami team was the first to win a national title without a single player voted to the first team All-Americans and only the second to win a national title gaining more passing yards than rushing.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season
The Auburn Tigers, featuring Bo Jackson also had a stellar season going 11–1 and beating Michigan in the Sugar Bowl 9–7. Despite entering the bowl games ranked third in both major polls, and with both teams ranked higher losing their bowl games, the Tigers ended ranked third in the final AP poll as Miami jumped from 5th to ranked No. 1 when they beat No. 1 ranked Nebraska to gain the National Championship. Auburn had played the toughest schedule in the nation, including eight bowl teams, seven of which were ranked in the top 20 (four in the top ten).


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season
Even with this difficult schedule the Tigers were ranked first by a few polls, including The New York Times computer rankings. The NCAA record book also formally recognizes the Tigers as co-national champions, along with Nebraska (and Miami). It is not uncommon for the NCAA record book to "recognize" multiple national champions in a given year, with the AP and Coaches' poll winner regarded as national champions.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season
The Holiday Bowl was also a classic, as Brigham Young University, led by future NFL star Steve Young, defeated Missouri with a last second halfback pass.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season
The annual rivalry game between Oregon and Oregon State is still widely known and derided as "The Toilet Bowl", as the teams played to a 0–0 tie, the last scoreless tie in college football. The game featured 11 total turnovers, as 6 fumbles were lost (out of 11 total), 5 interceptions, and 4 missed field goals.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season
This season saw no conference have two or more teams tie for the title—an event that did not happen again in either Division I-A or its successor, Division I FBS, until 2009. (Note, however, that even when a conference officially recognizes multiple champions, it will invariably have some kind of tiebreaker system to determine placement for bowl berths.)


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, September
The pre season top five was 1. Nebraska 2. Oklahoma, 3. Texas, 4. Penn State, and 5. Auburn.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, September
In the kickoff classic on August 29, Nebraska routed defending national champion Penn State, 44–6. Penn State opened with 3 losses and never made it back into the top 20. They were replaced in the top 5 by Notre Dame.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, September
September 17 was a day of shakeup in the top 5. No. 2 Oklahoma lost at home to No. 6 Ohio State, 24–12. No. 3 Texas won at No. 4 Auburn 20–7. No. 5 Notre Dame lost at home to Michigan State, 28–23. The new poll was 1. Nebraska, 2. Texas, 3. Ohio State, 4. Arizona, and 5. North Carolina. Nebraska and Texas would hold their spots at No. 1 and No. 2 for the remainder of the regular season.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, September
On September 24, No. 3 Ohio State lost at No. 7 Iowa 20–14. The new poll was 1. Nebraska, 2. Texas, 3. Arizona, 4. Iowa, and 5. North Carolina. Miami appears in the poll for the first time in the top 20, after shutting out No. 13 Notre Dame 20–0.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, October
On October 1, No. 3 Arizona was tied by California at Berkeley 33–33 and No. 4 Iowa was shut out at Illinois, 33–0. The new poll was 1. Nebraska, 2. Texas, 3. Alabama, 4. North Carolina and 5. West Virginia.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, October
On October 8, No. 3 Alabama lost at Penn State, 34–28. Auburn replaced their rivals in the top 5.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, October
October 15 saw no changes as the top 5 all won.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, October
On October 22, No. 4 West Virginia lost at Penn State 41–23. Florida replaced them in the top 5 that was 1. Nebraska, 2. Texas, 3. North Carolina, 4. Auburn, and 5. Florida.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, October
On October 29, No. 3 North Carolina started a 3–game losing streak by falling to No. 13 Maryland 28–26. No. 5 Florida lost at No. 4 Auburn 28–21. The new top five was 1. Nebraska, 2. Texas, 3. Auburn, 4. Georgia, and 5. Miami


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, November
November 5 saw no change in the top 5, but on November 12, No. 4 Georgia lost at home to No. 3 Auburn, 13–7. No. 5 Illinois clinched the Big 10 title and Rose Bowl berth with a 49–21 rout of Indiana, their 9th straight win. The Illini jumped ahead of Miami and replaced Georgia at No. 4 . That would be the last change in the top 5 for the regular season.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, November
The key traditional New Year's Day bowl matchups were set with No. 1 Nebraska facing No. 5 Miami in the Orange Bowl, No. 2 Texas facing No. 7 Georgia in the Cotton Bowl, No. 3 Auburn facing Big 10 runner-up No. 8 Michigan in the Sugar Bowl, and No. 4 Illinois facing unranked Pac-10 champion UCLA in the Rose Bowl.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, No. 1 and No. 2 Progress
In the AP preseason poll released on August 27, Big 8 Conference rivals Nebraska and Oklahoma were No. 1 and No. 2 . After the Oklahoma Sooners lost 24–14 to Ohio State on September 17, the Nebraska Cornhuskers remained No. 1 and were trailed for nearly the entire season by Texas. Nebraska received all 60 of the first place votes in the polls of September 26 and October 3, and no fewer than 51 as the season continued, while the Longhorns never received more than five votes during the same period.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, No. 1 and No. 2 Progress
Meanwhile, the University of Miami Hurricanes, unranked in the preseason Top 20, began winning after their first week 28–3 loss to Florida. Miami came in at No. 15 in the September 26 poll. As they continued unbeaten, the Hurricanes gathered force, rising to No. 12, No. 10, No. 8, No. 7, and reached No. 5 by October 31, where they remained in the final regular season poll after they were invited to play against Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.


1983 NCAA Division I-A football season, Heisman Trophy voting
Most Outstanding Player of the yearWinner:Mike Rozier, Nebraska RB (1,801 points)


1983 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game
The 1983 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Southern Illinois Salukis and the Western Carolina Catamounts. The game was played on December 17, 1983, at Johnson Hagood Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina. The culminating game of the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Southern Illinois, 43–7.


1983 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 1983 I-AA Playoffs, which began with a 12-team bracket.


1983 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams, Southern Illinois Salukis
Southern Illinois finished their regular season with a 10–1 record (5–1 in conference); their only loss was to Wichita State in their final regular season game. Ranked first in the final NCAA I-AA in-house poll and seeded first in the tournament, the Salukis received a first-round bye then defeated Indiana State and Nevada to reach the final. This was the first appearance for Southern Illinois in a Division I-AA championship game.


1983 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams, Western Carolina Catamounts
Western Carolina finished their regular season with an 8–2–1 record (5–0–1 in conference); their two losses were to Division I-A programs, Clemson and Wake Forest; the tie came against conference rival Furman. Ranked ninth in the final NCAA I-AA in-house poll and unseeded in the tournament, the Catamounts defeated Colgate, second-seed Holy Cross, and third-seed Furman to reach the final. This was also the first appearance for Western Carolina in a Division I-AA championship game.


1983 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Game summary
After a scoreless first quarter, Southern Illinois took a 10–0 lead into halftime, then broke the game open with 23 unanswered points in the third quarter. The Salukis' defense intercepted seven passes, with four of the interceptions made by safety Greg Shipp.


1983 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings
The 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the NCAA Division I-AA football committee. This is for the 1983 season.


1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season
The 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-AA level, began in August 1983, and concluded with the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 17, 1983, at Johnson Hagood Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina. The Southern Illinois Salukis won their first I-AA championship, defeating the Western Carolina Catamounts by a score of 43−7.


1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Conference champions
Big Sky Conference – NevadaIvy League – Harvard and PennMid-Eastern Athletic Conference – South Carolina StateOhio Valley Conference – Eastern KentuckySouthern Conference – FurmanSouthland Conference – North Texas State and Northeast LouisianaSouthwestern Athletic Conference – Grambling StateYankee Conference – Boston University and Connecticut


1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Postseason
The top four teams were seeded, and received first-round byes.


1983 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1983 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 1982–83 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. It was won by Wright State University and Wright State's Gary Monroe was the Most Outstanding Player.


1983 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1983 NCAA Men's Division II Ice Hockey Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college ice hockey. A total of 12 games were played, hosted by the University of Lowell.


1983 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
RIT, coached by Brian Mason, won the national title with a 4-2 victory in the final game over Bemidji State.


1983 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Dave Burkholder, of RIT, was named the Most Outstanding Player and Mike Carr, of the University of Lowell, was the high scorer of the tournament with ten points (4 goals, 6 assists).


1983 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
After the majority of NAIA schools switched to the NCAA the number of western teams vying for a tournament berth ballooned and as a result the Western Regional tournament was restarted. It is not considered as part of the NCAA tournament but is displayed here for reference.


1983 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament bracket
The quarter-finals were two-game total-goals series played at the campus of the higher seed. The semi-finals and finals were single elimination games.


1983 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship
The 1983 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship was the 12th annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States.


1983 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship
Seattle Pacific defeated Tampa in the final, 1–0, to win their second Division II national title. The Falcons (16-4-1), who previously won in 1978, were coached by Cliff McCrath.


1983 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship
The final match was played on December 2 at Pepin-Rood Stadium on the campus of the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida.


1983 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1983 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the second annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the team national champion of women's collegiate basketball among its Division II membership in the United States.


1983 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
Virginia Union defeated defending champions Cal Poly Pomona in the championship game, 73–60, to claim their first Division II national title.


1983 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were contested at the Springfield Civic Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.


1983 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying
A total of twenty-four teams qualified for this year's tournament, an increase of eight from 1982.


1983 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 1983 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the NCAA Division II football committee. This is for the 1983 season.


1983 NCAA Division II football season
The 1983 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began in August 1983, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 10, 1983, at McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in McAllen, Texas. During the game's five-year stretch in McAllen, the "City of Palms", it was referred to as the Palm Bowl. The North Dakota State Bison defeated the Central State (Ohio), 41–21, to win their first Division II national title.


1983 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Virginia UnionGreat Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saginaw Valley StateGulf South Conference – North AlabamaLone Star Conference – East Texas State and Southwest Texas StateMissouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Central Missouri State and Missouri–RollaNorth Central Conference – Nebraska–Omaha and North Dakota StateNorthern California Athletic Conference – UC DavisNorthern Intercollegiate Conference – Winona StatePennsylvania State Athletic Conference – ClarionRocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Colorado MesaSouth Atlantic Conference – Carson-NewmanSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Fort Valley State


1983 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
The 1983 NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs were the 11th single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The championship game was held at McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in McAllen, Texas, for the third consecutive time.


1983 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 1983 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1983 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the eighth national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with six teams competing at Pioneer Park in Marietta, Ohio for the championship. Six regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series.


1983 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with one region consisting of six teams, four regions consisting of four teams, and one region consisting of two teams, which was played as best-of-five, for a total of 24 teams participating in the tournament. The tournament champion was Marietta, who defeated Otterbein for the championship.


1983 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, Mideast Regional
Marietta (4-0),North Park (3-2),Ohio Northern (2-2),Luther (1-2),Elizabethtown (0-2),Monmouth (IL) (0-2)


1983 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1983 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was the ninth annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champions of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's Division III collegiate basketball in the United States.


1983 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Held during March 1983, the field included 32 teams and the final championship rounds were contested at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.


1983 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Scranton defeated Wittenberg, 64–63, to claim their second national title.


1983 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1983 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament was the second annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States.


1983 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
North Central (IL) defeated defending champions Elizabethtown in the championship game, 83–71, to claim the Cardinals' first Division III national title.


1983 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were hosted at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.


1983 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
The field for the tournament doubled in size from the previous championship in 1982, increasing from 16 to 32 teams.


1983 NCAA Division III football season
The 1983 NCAA Division III football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, began in August 1983, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1983 at Galbreath Field in Kings Island, Mason, Ohio. The Augustana (IL) Vikings won their first of four consecutive Division III championships by defeating the Union Dutchmen by a final score of 21−17.


1983 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
The 1983 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 11th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Galbreath Field at the College Football Hall of Fame in Kings Island, Mason, Ohio for the first time. Like the previous eight championships, eight teams competed in this edition.


1983 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships
The 1983 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested March 11−12, 1983 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and, for the first time, women's NCAA collegiate indoor track and field events in the United States. These were the 19th annual men's championships and the 1st annual women's championships.


1983 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships
On the men's side, the team title was claimed by SMU; it was the Mustang's first and the last team title not won by Arkansas until 1996. For the women, Nebraska took home the inaugural team title.


1983 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification
Unlike other NCAA-sponsored sports, there were not separate NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III championships for indoor track and field until 1985. As such, all athletes and programs from all three divisions were eligible to compete.


1983 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 1983 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.


1983 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
The 1983 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the 14th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate volleyball. The tournament was played at St. John Arena in Columbus, Ohio during May 1983.


1983 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
UCLA defeated Pepperdine in the final match, 3–0 (15–10, 16–14, 15–7), to win their tenth national title. The Bruins (27–4) were coached by Al Scates.


1983 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
UCLA's Ricci Luyties was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Luyties, along with six other players, comprised the All-tournament team.


1983 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification
Until the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.


1983 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The 1983 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the 15th annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach, California during December 1983.


1983 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
California defeated USC in the final, 10–7, to win their fifth national title. Coached by Pete Cutino, the Golden Bears finished the season 29–3–2.


1983 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
Jeff Campbell (UC Irvine), Peter Cutino (California), and Alan Gresham (California) were named the Co-Most Outstanding Players of the tournament. An All-Tournament Team, consisting of eight players, was also named.


1983 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The tournament's leading scorer was Dan O’Connell from Loyola–Chicago (11 goals).


1983 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification
Since there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 8 teams were invited to contest this championship. Nonetheless, Slippery Rock became the first team from outside Division I to qualify for the championship tournament.


1983 NCAA Rifle Championships
The 1983 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the fourth annual tournament to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States. The championship was held at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.


1983 NCAA Rifle Championships
West Virginia, with a team score of 6,166, won their first team title, finishing 18 points ahead of three-time defending champion Tennessee Tech. The Mountaineers were coached by Olympian Edward Etzel.


1983 NCAA Rifle Championships
The individual champions were, for the smallbore rifle, David Johnson (West Virginia) and, for the air rifle, Ray Slonena (Tennessee Tech).


1983 NCAA Rifle Championships, Qualification
Since there is only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of seven teams ultimately contested this championship.


1983 NCAA Skiing Championships
The 1983 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Bridger Bowl Ski Area in Bozeman, Montana as part of the 30th annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's collegiate slalom skiing and cross country skiing in the United States.


1983 NCAA Skiing Championships
These were the first championships with teams composed of both men's and women's skiers.


1983 NCAA Skiing Championships
Utah, coached by Phil Miller, claimed their second team national championship, 46 points ahead of Vermont in the cumulative team standings.


1983 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue
This year's NCAA skiing championships were hosted at the Bridger Bowl Ski Area near Bozeman, Montana.


1983 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue
These were the second championships held in the state of Montana (1960 and 1983).


1983 NCAA Women's Golf Championship
The 1983 NCAA Women's Golf Championships were contested at the second annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of women's collegiate golf in the United States. Until 1996, the NCAA would hold just one women's golf championship for all programs across Division I, Division II, and Division III.


1983 NCAA Women's Golf Championship
The tournament was held at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Georgia.


1983 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The 1983 NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship involved 10 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the second NCAA gymnastics national championship and the defending NCAA Team Champion for 1982 was Utah. The Competition took place in Salt Lake City, Utah hosted by the University of Utah in the Jon M. Huntsman Center.


1983 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship
The 1983 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship was the second annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship of NCAA women's college lacrosse. The championship game was played at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during May 1983.


1983 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship
The Delaware Blue Hens won their first championship by defeating the Temple Owls in the final, 10–7.


1983 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship
The leading scorer for the tournament was Karen Emas, from Delaware, with 14 goals. Emas was also named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.


1983 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship, Qualification
Until 1985, there was only one NCAA championship; a Division III title was added in 1985 and a Division II title in 2001. Hence, all NCAA women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship. A total of 12 teams were invited to contest the tournament, expanding on the 2 teams from the previous year. Eleven teams made their debuts in the NCAA tournament this year.


1983 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament
The 1983 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament was the second annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate soccer. The championship game was again played at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida during December 1983.


1983 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament
North Carolina defeated George Mason in the final, 4–0, to win their second national title. The Tar Heels were coached by Anson Dorrance.


1983 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament
The Most Outstanding Player was Chris Taggert (Massachusetts), the Most Outstanding Offensive Player was  Lisa Gmitter (George Mason), and the Most Outstanding Defensive Player was Sue Cobb (North Carolina). Additionally, a All-Tournament Team, consisting of 16 players, was named for the first time this year.


1983 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament
The leading scorer for the tournament was April Heinrichs from North Carolina (4 goals).


1983 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
At the time, there was only one NCAA championship for women's soccer; a Division III title was added in 1986 and a Division II title in 1988. Hence, all NCAA women's soccer programs  (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible for this championship. A total of 12 teams were ultimately invited to contest this tournament.


1983 NFL Draft
The 1983 NFL Draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 26–27, 1983, at the New York Sheraton Hotel in New York City, New York. No teams elected to claim any players in the supplemental draft that year.


1983 NFL Draft
The draft is frequently referred to as the quarterback class of 1983, because six quarterbacks were taken in the first round—John Elway, Todd Blackledge, Jim Kelly, Tony Eason, Ken O'Brien, and Dan Marino—the highest number of first round picks for the position. Of these quarterbacks, Elway, Kelly, Eason, and Marino played in the Super Bowl, Elway, Kelly, O'Brien, and Marino were selected to play in the Pro Bowl, and Elway, Kelly, and Marino have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.


1983 NFL Draft
All six quarterbacks were drafted by American Football Conference (AFC) teams, with every member of the five-team AFC East (the Baltimore Colts, Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, New York Jets, and New England Patriots) selecting a quarterback. In eleven of the sixteen years following this draft, the AFC was represented in the Super Bowl by a team led by one of these quarterbacks: five with the Denver Broncos and Elway, four with the Bills and Kelly, one with the Dolphins and Marino, and one with the Patriots and Eason.


1983 NFL Draft
They met with little success in the Super Bowl, however, compiling a 2–9 record among them, with an 0–9 record for their first 14 years in the league. The only two wins were by Elway in XXXII and XXXIII during his final two seasons in 1997 and 1998.


1983 NFL Draft
Three of the most lopsided Super Bowl losses in history also came at the hands of quarterbacks from the Class of '83: Elway, a 55–10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in XXIV; Eason, a 46–10 loss to the Chicago Bears in XX; and Kelly, a 52–17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys in XXVII. Marino would only reach the Super Bowl once in a 38–16 loss to San Francisco in XIX following the end of Marino's second season. Kelly and the Bills would appear in the Super Bowl for a record four consecutive years, from 1990 to 1993, but lost all four.


1983 NFL Draft
Of the six first round quarterbacks drafted, Hall of Famers Elway and Kelly did not sign with the teams that selected them for the 1983 season. Elway, who had made his antipathy towards the Colts known long before the draft, was also a promising baseball player in the New York Yankees organization. With Yankees owner George Steinbrenner aggressively pursuing a commitment from Elway to play baseball full-time, Elway and his agent, Marvin Demoff, successfully leveraged the threat of Elway abandoning football altogether to compel the Colts to trade Elway to the Broncos a few days after the draft.


1983 NFL Draft
Kelly, the other holdout, instead signed with the Houston Gamblers of the United States Football League (USFL), where he led the springtime circuit in passing in both 1984 and 1985. Kelly was set to play for the New Jersey Generals when the USFL planned to switch to a fall season in 1986, but when the USFL won only $1 (trebled to $3) from its antitrust lawsuit vs. the NFL on July 29, 1986, Kelly finally signed with the Bills three weeks later.


1983 NFL Draft
Including the aforementioned Elway, Kelly, and Marino, a total of seven players drafted in the first round have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and eight players overall have been inducted. Each round of this draft also contained at least one player who was later selected to play in the Pro Bowl. Several websites, including Bleacher Report and Athlon Sports, have called the class of 1983 the greatest of all time.


1983 NFL season
The 1983 NFL season was the 64th regular season of the National Football League. The Colts played their final season in Baltimore  before the team's relocation to Indianapolis the following season. The season ended with Super Bowl XVIII when the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington Redskins 38–9 at Tampa Stadium in Florida.


1983 NFL season, Player movement, Draft
The 1983 NFL Draft was held from April 26 to 27, 1983 at New York City's Sheraton Hotel. With the first pick, the Baltimore Colts selected quarterback John Elway from Stanford University.


1983 NFL season, Division Races
From 1978 to 1981 & this season to 1989, ten teams qualified for the playoffs: the winners of each of the divisions, and two wild-card teams in each conference. The two wild cards would meet for the right to face whichever of the three division winners had the best overall record. The tiebreaker rules were based on head-to-head competition, followed by division records, common opponents records, and conference play.


1983 NFL season, Regular season, Scheduling formula
Inter-conferenceAFC East vs NFC WestAFC Central vs NFC CentralAFC West vs NFC East


1983 NFL season, Stadium changes
Schaefer Stadium is renamed Sullivan Stadium after New England Patriots founder and owner Billy Sullivan


1983 NHL Entry Draft
The 1983 NHL Entry Draft was the 21st NHL Entry Draft. It was held at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec, on June 8, 1983. The NHL Entry Draft is the primary means by which players arrive in the National Hockey League. The St. Louis Blues did not participate in this draft, shortly after the league blocked the franchise's relocation to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. This was the only time in National Hockey League history that a franchise did not participate in an entry draft. This was also the last time a playoff team picked first overall until 2020 when the New York Rangers won the first selection.


1983 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round
Below are listed the selections in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft. Club teams are located in North America unless otherwise noted.


1983 NSL Cup
The 1983 NSL Cup was the seventh season of the NSL Cup, which was the main national association football knockout cup competition in Australia. All 16 NSL teams from around Australia entered the competition.


1983 NSWRFL season
The 1983 NSWRFL season was the 76th season of professional rugby league football in Australia. Fourteen teams competed for the J J Giltinan Shield and Winfield Cup during the season, which culminated in a replay of the previous year's grand final between the Parramatta and Manly-Warringah clubs. During the season, NSWRFL teams also competed for the 1983 KB Cup.


1983 NSWRFL season
1983 was the final season in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for Sydney-based foundation club Newtown Jets, and the first reduction in the number of teams in the competition since Sydney University’s departure at the end of the 1937 NSWRFL season. It was also the first season that was played with four-point tries.


1983 NSWRFL season, Season summary
For the first time, the number of points awarded for scoring a try was raised from three to four. There was also the introduction of a handover if a team was caught in possession six times, which had the effect of killing the traditional scrum but attracted many new followers to a game that had seen attendances decline by fifty percent since the record year of 1968. To counter a lucrative illegal betting market, legal betting via FootyTAB was introduced and was a regarded as a success.


1983 NSWRFL season, Season summary
Twenty-six regular season rounds were played from February till August, resulting in a top five of Manly-Warringah, Parramatta, Canterbury-Bankstown, Balmain and St. George, who battled it out in the finals. Manly-Warringah managed 23 wins from 28 matches in 1983 – at the time the most wins in a season by a club in NSWRFL premiership history alongside Parramatta’s 23 in 1982.


1983 NSWRFL season, Season summary
The 1983 season's Rothmans Medallist was Eastern Suburbs’ back, Michael Eden and the Dally M Award went to Western Suburbs’ half, Terry Lamb. Rugby League Week gave their player of the year award to Manly-Warringah winger, Phil Sigsworth. This season the Cocal-Cola Coach-of-the-year award was voted for by the coaches in the League and was awarded to rookie coach Laurie Freier.


1983 NSWRFL season, Season summary
This was also the last year in the first-grade competition for foundation club Newtown, who were dropped at the season’s end.


1983 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
The lineup of teams remained unchanged from the previous season, with fourteen clubs competing in total, including six Sydney-based foundation teams, another six from Sydney, one from greater New South Wales and one from the Australian Capital Territory. It was the last season for the Newtown club.


1983 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
76th seasonGround: Henson Park, Orana ParkCoach: Brian MooreCaptain: Ken Wilson, Dean Lance


1983 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
76th seasonGround: North Sydney OvalCoach: John Hayes, Greg HawickCaptain: Mark Graham, John Adam


1983 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
63rd seasonGround: Kogarah OvalCoach: Roy MastersCaptain: Craig Young, John Jansen


1983 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Parramatta powered over Manly for the second year straight to claim their third successive title. The 18-6 win saw Brett Kenny claim a unique achievement in scoring two tries in three successive grand finals. Kenny opened the scoring and the Eels raced to a 10-0 lead after 13 minutes when Eric Grothe steamrolled burly Manly fullback Graham Eadie.


1983 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Parramatta 18 (Tries: Brett Kenny 2, Eric Grothe; Goals: Cronin 3)


1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore
The 1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore was a women's professional golf tournament, held March 31 to April 3 at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California. It was the twelfth edition of what is now the ANA Inspiration and its first year as a major championship.


1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore
In strong winds, Amy Alcott won the third of her five major titles, two strokes ahead of runners-up Kathy Whitworth and Beth Daniel, the leader after each of the first three rounds. Alcott won the title again in 1988 and 1991.


1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore
It was the richest tournament in women's golf in 1983; the $400,000 purse was double that of the 1983 U.S. Women's Open. The final round attendance in 1983 was over 20,000, and this was the first year that amateurs were invited; two made the cut and future major winner Kathy Baker was the low amateur.


1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore
The previous year's champion, Sally Little, finished at 303 (+15), 21 strokes back in a tie for 44th place.


1983 NatWest Trophy
The 1983 NatWest Trophy was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 29 June and 3 September 1983. The third NatWest Trophy competition, it was won by Somerset who defeated Kent by 24 runs in the final at Lord's.


1983 NatWest Trophy, Format
The seventeen first-class counties were joined by thirteen Minor Counties. This was a change from the previous versions of the competition, where only five Minor Counties were permitted to take part. The Minor Counties taking part were: Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Suffolk and Wiltshire. The Ireland team also participated, along with Scotland national cricket team for the first time. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 3 September 1983.


1983 National Camogie League
The 1983 National Camogie League, the second most important elite level inter-county competition in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Dublin, who defeated Wexford in the final, played at Russell Park.


1983 National Camogie League, Arrangements
Dublin were becoming known as league specialists as the competition entered its eighth season, partly because the Dublin championship was a winter competition and reached its climax in April and players reached a higher level of fitness than many of their opponents. Dublin defeated Louth, Galway, Kilkenny, Antrim and Down while Wexford defeated All-Ireland champions Cork in their opening game, Clare, Tipperary and Limerick. For the final Dublin had eight of the team that won the league title in 1979 and nine from 1981. Five of the Wexford panel were studying for the Leaving Cert and Marita O'Neill was grand-daughter of Martin O'Neill from Ferns, referee of the 1947 All-Ireland final and former secretary of the Leinster Council of the GAA.


1983 National Camogie League, The Final
Dublin were set on course for their 11-point victory in the 17th minute when Mary Mernagh sent a speculative shot towards the Wexford goal, goalkeeper Kathleen Tonks misjudged the shot and it dropped into the net. Dublin led 1-6 to 0-4 at half time and started with second half with a goal from Joan Gormley. Caroline O'Leary-Farrington collected a rebound from Dublin goalkeeper Yvonne Redmond for a Wexford goal. Joan Gormley and Una Crowley added Dublin goals before the end.


1983 National Camogie League, Division 2
The Junior National League, known since 2006 as Division Two, was won by Dublin’s second team who defeated Westmeath in the final at Cusack Park, Mullingar. Westmeath had cut the Dublin lead to three points ten minutes from the end before succumbing. Dublin outclassed all their opposition en route to the final winning their matches by margins of seven goals or more. Westmeath defeated Derry 5-6 to 3-2 in the semi-final.


1983 National Challenge Cup
The 1983 National Challenge Cup was the 70th edition of the USSF's annual open soccer championship. Teams from the North American Soccer League declined to participate. New York Pancyprian-Freedoms defeated St. Louis Kutis SC in the final game. The score was 4–3.


1983 National Challenge Cup
It would be the final time in the 20th century that a club would consecutively win the National Cup. The next time it would happen was when the Seattle Sounders FC won the 2010 title.


1983 National Collegiate Slow-pitch Softball Championship
The 1983 National Collegiate Women's Slow-pitch Softball Championship was held in Graham, North Carolina, near Raleigh, on May 5–7. This was the first year after the demise of the AIAW, which had conducted the previous two national title tournaments in 1981 and 1982. The Amateur Softball Association stepped in to fill the void by organizing the 1983 tournament and another in 1984. Those four years were the only time that major college slow-pitch teams competed for national collegiate titles, although small NAIA schools and junior colleges also conducted their own slow-pitch championships into the 1990s. The AIAW had lost its struggle with the NCAA, which vanquished the women's collegiate athletic organization after a year of dual crowning of champions in women's sports. Although the NCAA began sponsoring fast-pitch softball in 1982, it opted not to organize slow-pitch.


1983 National Collegiate Slow-pitch Softball Championship, Teams
The double-elimination tournament included 13 teams, with the top five seeded in the order shown:


1983 National Collegiate Slow-pitch Softball Championship, Teams
Fourth-seeded South Florida fought through the losers' bracket after losing its third game. South Florida won five in a row after that, including two wins in the final against two-time defending champion Florida State. The final if-necessary game went an extra inning to end in a 4-3 South Florida win, giving the team a 7-1 record in the tournament. Ellen Peterson of South Florida was named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. This was to be the last slow-pitch game ever played by the Florida State Lady Seminoles, who switched to fast-pitch the following year. South Florida successfully defended its championship in 1984.


1983 National Collegiate Slow-pitch Softball Championship, Ranking
The placings of Capital University, Georgia Southern, North Carolina A&T, Northern Kentucky and West Florida depend on the game results that have not been retrieved.


1983 National Invitation Tournament
The 1983 National Invitation Tournament was the 1983 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.


1983 National Invitation Tournament, Bracket
Below are the four first round brackets, along with the four-team championship bracket.


1983 National League Championship Series
The 1983 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five matchup between the West Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the East Division champion Philadelphia Phillies. It was the 15th NLCS in all. The Phillies beat the Dodgers, three games to one, and would go on lose the World Series to the Baltimore Orioles.


1983 National League Championship Series, Background
The Phillies post-season roster had nine players 30 years of age or over and three rookies, Charlie Hudson, Kevin Gross, and Juan Samuel. The Dodgers entered the series as favorites after winning 11 of 12 games against the Phillies in the regular season. The Dodgers had shut out the Phillies five times, allowed only 15 runs total, and held Phillies hitters to a .187 batting average.


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Tuesday, October 4, 1983, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Mike Schmidt hit a two-out homer off Jerry Reuss in the first, and the Phillies made it hold up as Steve Carlton and Al Holland combined to scatter seven Dodger hits. The Dodgers' only threats came in the sixth, when Steve Sax singled, Bill Russell sacrificed Sax to second, and Sax went to third on a Carlton wild pitch. Carlton retired the last two hitters, however. Another threat came in the eighth when singles by Sax and Dusty Baker and a walk to Pedro Guerrero loaded the bases, chasing Carlton. Holland came in and retired Mike Marshall for the third out and finished the game.


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Wednesday, October 5, 1983, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
The Dodgers drew first blood with a Ken Landreaux RBI single in the first with two on. Gary Matthews tied it for the Phils in the second with a home run off Fernando Valenzuela. Valenzuela and Cy Young Award winner John Denny would continue dueling until the Dodger half of the fifth. Valenzuela led off and reached third when Garry Maddox misplayed a fly-ball. However, with one out, Valenzuela was thrown out at the plate on a Greg Brock ground ball (Brock reached first). Seemingly out of the inning, Denny walked Dusty Baker and then gave up a tie-breaking two-run triple to Pedro Guerrero.


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
The Dodgers' final run came in the eighth when Bill Russell walked with two outs, stole second, and scored on an RBI single by catcher Jack Fimple. Valenzuela and Tom Niedenfuer would combine to scatter seven hits for the win.


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Friday, October 7, 1983, at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
With the series shifting to Philadelphia, Dodgers starter Bob Welch was pulled from the game in the second after walking two with one out. A wild pitch and passed ball by reliever Alejandro Pena scored the game's first run. After Bo Diaz walked, Ivan de Jesus's RBI groundout made it 2–0 Phillies. Next inning, Joe Lefebvre's sacrifice fly with two on made it 3–0 Phillies. In the top of the fourth, rookie Charles Hudson allowed a leadoff single, then a two-out two-run homer by Mike Marshall to cut the Phillies' lead to 3–2.


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
However, Hudson only allowed two other hits and pitched a complete game. Gary Matthews's leadoff home run in the bottom of the inning extended the Phillies' lead to 4–2. Next inning, Dodgers reliever Rick Honeycutt allowed a one-out single and double, then Matthews's two-run single off of Joe Beckwith made it 6–2 Phillies. Matthews hit another RBI single in the seventh off of Pat Zachry in the seventh that capped the scoring at 7–2 Phillies, giving them a 2–1 series lead.


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Saturday, October 8, 1983, at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Series MVP Gary Matthews hit a three-run homer in the first off Jerry Reuss after two straight two-out singles. Dusty Baker's leadoff home run in the fourth off of Steve Carlton put the Dodgers on the board. In the fifth, Pete Rose hit a leadoff single and scored on Mike Schmidt's double to knock Reuss out of the game. Schmidt then moved to third on a groundout and after an intentional walk, scored on Garry Maddox's fielder's choice off of Joe Beckwith. Sixto Lezcano added a two-run homer in the sixth off of Rick Honeycutt after a two-out single.


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Baker drove in the Dodgers' other run in the eighth with an RBI single off of Ron Reed after a leadoff single. One Dodger fan could be heard screaming "It was a whole new ballgame!" but the Dodger rally was short-lived as Steve Carlton pitched his second win, scattering 10 hits with relief help from Reed and Al Holland. The Phillies moved to their second World Series in four seasons.


1983 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Out of the 14 postseason series that Pete Rose played in, this was the only one in which he did not record an RBI. He did hit well in the series, compiling six hits and one walk in 17 plate appearances. Oddly enough, in the 13 series in which Rose had an RBI, he never drove in more than two runs in any of them.


1983 National League season
The 1983 National League was the second tier of motorcycle speedway racing in the United Kingdom.


1983 National League season, Summary
After the tragedy of losing a rider the previous season Milton Keynes endured a second loss when their rider Craig Featherby was killed in a crash at Peterborough in a National League match on 16 September. Featherby hit a lamp standard after being thrown from the bike.


1983 National League season, National League Knockout Cup
The 1983 National League Knockout Cup was the 16th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Exeter Falcons were the winners of the competition.


1983 National League season, National League Knockout Cup, Final
Exeter were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 96–95.


1983 National Panasonic Open
The 1983 National Panasonic Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Milton Tennis Centre in Brisbane, Australia that was part of the 1983 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 14 November through 20 November 1983. First-seeded Pam Shriver won the singles title and earned $27,500 first-prize money.


1983 National Panasonic Open, Finals, Doubles
Anne Hobbs /  Wendy Turnbull defeated  Pam Shriver /  Sharon Walsh 6–3, 6–4


1983 National Soccer League
The National Soccer League 1983 season was the seventh season of the National Soccer League in Australia. The champions were St George, winning the title on the last day of the season from Sydney City SC.


1983 National Soccer League (Canada) season
The 1983 National Soccer League season was the sixthly season under the National Soccer League (NSL) name. The season began in May, 1983 and concluded in early October, 1983 with the NSL Championship final where Toronto Italia secured the title against Dinamo Latino in a penalty shootout. Toronto would also secure the double by defeating Toronto Panhellenic for the NSL Cup. Toronto Panhellenic achieved a milestone in the league history as it won its first regular season title.


1983 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
Before the commencement of the regular outdoor season the National Soccer League (NSL) operated an indoor season for the winter months. When the regular season debuted the league faced competition from the newly formed Canadian Professional Soccer League (CPSL) as it became the country's first truly national professional soccer league. The CPSL had an NSL presence as both Hamilton Steelers and Toronto Croatia (operated as Mississauga Croatia) were participating members in the league while still retaining reserve teams in the NSL.


1983 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
The national experiment ended in a disappointing fashion as Inter-Montreal FC and Toronto Nationals departed from the league midway through the season, which forced an early postseason and ultimately collapsed after one season. On the other hand, the NSL strengthen their ties with the North American Soccer League (NASL) as the Toronto Blizzard and Toronto Italia secured a talent exchange deal.


1983 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Overview
The membership in the league decreased to eight teams as the Bradford Marshlanders requested a sabbatical, and Toronto Falcons joined the Liga Hispanoamerica de Football Amateur (LHFA).


1983 National Soccer League (Canada) season, Cup
The cup tournament was a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all eight teams took part. All the matches were separate from the regular season, and the teams were grouped into two separate divisions. The two winners in the group stage would advance in a two-legged match final for the Cup.


1983 National Society of Film Critics Awards
The 18th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1984, honored the best filmmaking of 1983.


1983 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Picture
1. The Night of the Shooting Stars (La notte di San Lorenzo)2. Berlin Alexanderplatz2. Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)


1983 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Director
1. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani – The Night of the Shooting Stars (La notte di San Lorenzo)2. Philip Kaufman – The Right Stuff3. Ingmar Bergman – Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)


1983 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actor
1. Gérard Depardieu – Danton and The Return of Martin Guerre (Le retour de Martin Guerre)2. Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies3. Günter Lamprecht – Berlin Alexanderplatz


1983 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actress
1. Debra Winger – Terms of Endearment2. Joanna Cassidy – Under Fire3. Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment


1983 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actress
1. Sandra Bernhard – The King of Comedy2. Cher – Silkwood3. Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously


1983 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Screenplay
1. Bill Forsyth – Local Hero2. Clayton Frohman and Ron Shelton – Under Fire3. James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment


1983 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Cinematography
1. Hiro Narita – Never Cry Wolf2. Gordon Willis – Zelig3. John Alcott – Under Fire


1983 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1983 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix was the third race of the 1983 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 22–24 April 1983 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.


1983 Nauruan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Nauru on 3 December 1983. As there were no political parties, all candidates ran as independents. Following the election, President Hammer DeRoburt was re-elected by ten votes to six.


1983 Nauruan parliamentary election, Aftermath
Following the elections, DeRoburt was re-elected president. He appointed long-term ally Buraro Detudamo as Minister for Works and Communications and Minister Assisting the President, and three former opponents to the other positions; Kenas Aroi as Minister for Finance, Bernard Dowiyogo as Minister for Justice and Lawrence Stephen as Minister for Education and Health.


1983 Navarrese regional election
The 1983 Navarrese regional election was held on Sunday, 8 May 1983, to elect the 1st Parliament of the Chartered Community of Navarre. All 50 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.


1983 Navarrese regional election
The election resulted in a deadlocked situation: the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) became the largest political force with 20 seats but fell short of an absolute majority, whereas the conservative Navarrese People's Union (UPN) and the People's Coalition—an electoral conglomerate of the People's Alliance (AP), the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Union (UL)—soon announced a political agreement to join their 13 and 8 seats to form the government at the regional level and in the local city councils.


1983 Navarrese regional election
The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) was left holding the balance of power with its 3 seats, as Herri Batasuna (HB) followed a policy of abstentionism. The former ruling party of Spain, the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), had chosen to dissolve itself in February 1983 and did not contest the election as a result.


1983 Navarrese regional election
A constitutional conflict erupted in August 1983 as a result of the PSOE and UPN clashing over the law's interpretation as to whom should be proposed as candidate, aggravated after the Parliament's speaker attempted to propose UPN's José Ángel Zubiaur instead of PSOE candidate Gabriel Urralburu for the post.


1983 Navarrese regional election
The Spanish Constitutional Court intervened to end the political deadlock ruling in PSOE's favour, and after talks for a prospective government supported by UPN, CP and PNV failed, Gabriel Urralburu was automatically elected as new Navarrese premier in April 1984 and his government sworn in on 4 May, putting an end to one of the most severe political crises in Navarre history.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The Parliament of Navarre was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the Chartered Community of Navarre, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Reintegration and Enhancement of the Foral Regime of Navarre Law, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in Navarre and in full enjoyment of their political rights.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The 50 members of the Parliament of Navarre were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of at least 0.1 percent of the electors registered in the constituency for which they sought election—needing to secure, in any case, the signature of 500 electors—. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within fifteen days of the election being called.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Overview, Election date
The Foral Deputation of Navarre, in agreement with the Government of Spain, was required to call an election to the Parliament of Navarre within from 1 February to 31 May 1983. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the candidate from the party with the highest number of seats was to be deemed automatically elected.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Aftermath
Investiture processes to elect the President of the Government of Navarre required for an absolute majority—more than half the votes cast—to be obtained in the first ballot. If unsuccessful, a new ballot would be held 48 hours later under the same majority requirement, with successive votes requiring only of a simple majority—more affirmative than negative votes—to succeed. If the proposed candidate was not elected, successive proposals were to be transacted under the same procedure. In the event of the investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the candidate from the party with the highest number of seats was deemed to be automatically elected.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Aftermath
After the regional election, UPN and the People's Coalition formed an alliance to take the post of speaker of the regional Parliament away from the PSOE, electing UPN's Balbino Bados for the post. This allowed both parties to take control of the investiture process and nominate José Ángel Zubiaur as candidate for investiture.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Aftermath
The attempts to form a Zubiaur-led right-wing government were voted down by both PSOE and PNV, which unsuccessfully held exploratory talks to test an agreement to unlock the situation.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Aftermath
After the failure of negotiations, PSOE candidate Gabriel Urralburu had hoped to automatically become new regional president on 21 August 1983 under statutory provisions as the candidate from the party with the highest number of seats, but a clash between PSOE and UPN—whose leader Balbino Ados held the presidency of the regional parliament, the office tasked with nominating a prospective president—over the law's interpretation as to whom should be proposed as candidate resulted in a constitutional conflict.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Aftermath
The PSOE's stance was that the legal provision from Section 29.3 of the Enhancement Law required the automatic election of the candidate from the largest party in parliament—meaning that Gabriel Urralburu was to become the new Navarrese president—whereas UPN argued that the pre-requisite condition of "candidate" was only obtained by having contested an investiture process, a criterion which up until that point only José Ángel Zubiaur had met.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Aftermath
On 25 August, and against the advice from the Parliament's legal services, Bados attempted to have Zubiaur nominated as new president pending the King's confirmation, a decision which was heavily criticized by all parties but UPN and AP, and which was summarily aborted by the Government of Spain and the regional PSOE bringing the issue to the Constitutional Court.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Aftermath
This situation forced incumbent president Juan Manuel Arza to remain in the post in a caretaker capacity until the Court ruled on the issue, in a situation of political and administrative deadlock as the region relied on a prorogued 1982 budget, resigning government members could not be replaced, and legislative and cooperation projects stagnated. This was further aggravated in January 1984 after the Constitutional Court declared as null and void the dismissal in 1980 of previous president Jaime Ignacio del Burgo, reinstating him to the post until the election of the new regional premier.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Aftermath
In February 1984, the Constitutional Court ruled that the investiture process was to be returned to the moment after Zubiaur's fourth failed voting and that a new candidate had to be proposed for a new round of votings, with the mandate to the regional Parliament to designate "the candidate of the political party that has the largest number of seats and that had been proposed as such to the president of Parliament by that party" in the event of no successful investiture. Urralburu was proposed as new candidate for investiture as both PSOE and UPN sought to obtain PNV's support.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Aftermath
Urralburu failed in his attempts to obtain the confidence of parliament, as UPN, CP and PNV started talks to form a coalition government and avoid Urralburu's automatic election in April. On 13 March 1984, Balbino Ados proposed UPN's Juan Cruz Alli for investiture, with a parliamentary session initially scheduled for 22 March, but this attempt was averted as a result of the breakup of negotiations with the PNV, which was internally divided over the support or facilitation-through-abstention of a right-wing government in Navarre as favoured by the party's leadership but not by their local Navarrese branch. José Luis Monge was proposed by AP as a last-ditch attempt to hold an investiture session and prevent Urralburu's election.


1983 Navarrese regional election, Aftermath
With Monge's defeat, Urralburu was set to be proclaimed new Navarrese president on 17 April, allowing the formation of a new government and ending the political deadlock that had resulted from the 1983 regional election.


1983 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1983 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) as an independent during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by second-year head coach Gary Tranquill.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Tom Osborne and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nicknamed "The Scoring Explosion", the team was noted for its prolific offense, which is still widely considered one of the greatest in college football history. The team and some of its individual players set several NCAA statistical records, some of which still stand. Nebraska scored a total of 654 points on the season.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Armsng, Rob #49 (So.) LBBaulisch, Tom (So.) DEBehning, Mark #73 (Jr.) OTBiggers, Kevin #13 (Jr.) MONBlankenship, Brian #70 (So.) OGBorer, Pat #41 (So.) FBBourn, Don #92 (Jr.) TEBourne, David (So.) DEBowen, Bob (So.) TEBrungardt, Mike (So.) DEBrungardt, Tim #32 (Sr.) FBBunger, Jon #97 (So.) DEBurke, Dave #33 (Jr.) CBCarl, Mike (So.) CBCarlson, Dan (So.) OGCartwright, Charlie #31 (So.) CBCasterline, Dan #24 (So.) MONClark, Bret #10 (Jr.) SCooper, Mark (So.) CDaffer, Chad #46 (So.) LBDaum, Mark #51 (Jr.) LBDemmel, Tom (So.) PDietz, Dave #98 (So.) TEDittmer, Jim #59 (Jr.) OGDivis, Greg #45 (So.) IBDuBose, Doug #22 (So.) IBEngebritson, Monte #83 (Sr.) TEFisher, Todd #6 (So.) CBFrain, Todd #80 (So.) TEFryar, Irving #27 (Sr.) WBGatson, Pernell (So.) WBGill, Turner #12 (Sr.) QBGraeber, Ken #52 (Jr.) MGGreene, Ricky #5 (Jr.) CBGrimminger, Harry #58 (Jr.) OGHagerman, Mark #9 (Sr.) PKHarris, Neil #11 (Jr.) CBHerrmann, Doug #63 (Sr.) DTHiemer, Brian #94 (Jr.) TE


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Hoefler, Mike (So.) CHolloway, Tony #43 (So.) DEJeffries, Jack (So.) TEKaelin, Ken (So.) FBKeeler, Mike #61 (Sr.) DTKimball, Scott #88 (Jr.) SEKlein, Dale (So.) PKKnox, Mike #44 (Jr.) LBKreikemeier, Keith (So.) OGLambert, Andre (So.) SELewis, Bill #68 (So.) CLindstrom, Roger #23 (So.) WBLivingston, Scott #48 (Jr.) P/PKMaggard, Rob (So.) OTMarfisi, Gerald #35 (So.) MONMason, Nate #8 (Sr.) QBMcCashland, Mike #2 (Jr.) MONMcCormick, Kevin #69 (So.) OGMcCoy, Dan #40 (So.) LBMiles, Paul #21 (So.) IBMlinar, Jerry (So.) QBMorrow, Tom #77 (So.)


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
OTMuehling, Brad #54 (Sr.) CMullins, Marty (So.) SENapodano, Joe #3 (So.) SNelson, Ray (So.) IBNoel, Jack (So.) COrton, Greg #67 (Jr.) OGPaige, Woody #9 (So.) CBParker, Stan #74 (Fr.) OTParsons, Kevin #35 (Fr.) LBPokorny, Brian #18 (So.) CBPorter, Scott #36 (Jr.) FBPraeuner, Wade #85 (Sr.) MONProffitt, Todd #34 (So.) LBRaridon, Scott #72 (Sr.) OTRathman, Tom #26 (So.) FBReeves, Gregg #93 (So.) DEReinhardt, John #62 (Sr.) MG


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Reynolds, Rod #95 (So.) DTRidder, Dave #86 (Sr.) DERoth, Tim #65 (So.) OTRozier, Guy #4 (So.) MONRozier, Mike #30 (Sr.) IBSchellen, Mark #25 (Sr.) FBSchneider, Dave #1 (So.) PKSchneider, Gary (So.) CBSchnitzler, Robb (So.) WBSchoettger, Scott #42 (Jr.) SEShead, Ken #99 (So.) MGSherlock, John #66 (Sr.) OTSiebler, Bryan #19 (So.) CBSimmons, Ricky #7 (Sr.) SESkow, Jim #96 (So.) DTSmith, Brad #81 (So.) DESmith, Jeff #28 (Jr.) IBSpachman, Chris #76 (Fr.)


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
DTStacy, Dave #16 (So.) CBSteinkuhler, Dean #71 (Sr.) OGStrasburger, Matt (So.) SStrasburger, Scott #90 (Jr.) DEStuckey, Rob #75 (Jr.) DTSundberg, Craig #15 (Jr.) QBSwanson, Shane #17 (Jr.) WBThayer, Dan #29 (So.) SThomas, Anthony #53 (Jr.) OGThompson, Jim #39 (Jr.) WBTramner, Mike #64 (Sr.) MGTraynowicz, Mark #57 (Jr.) CTucker, Scott #89 (So.) DETurner, Travis #14 (So.) QBWade, Stanley #55 (So.) LBWeber, Bill #87 (Jr.) DEWhite, John (So.) LBWingard, Dan #47 (So.) PYates, Rod #91 (Jr.) SEZierke, Mike #78 (Jr.) DT


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Nebraska overcame nine fumbles (one lost) to avenge their only loss from the previous year, destroying the defending national championship Penn State team 44-6 in the first ever Kickoff Classic. The Nittany Lions narrowly avoided their first shutout since 1972 when they scored a touchdown against Nebraska reserves with 20 seconds left to play. The margin of defeat tied the worst loss ever by a Joe Paterno Penn State team to date.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Wyoming
It was a record-setting day as Nebraska IB Mike Rozier became Nebraska's all-time rushing leader, breaking the previous record set by IB I. M. Hipp four years prior, while Nebraska QB Turner Gill extended his interception-free pass completions streak to a record 99, surpassing QB Jerry Tagge's record of 88 set in 1969. Nebraska rolled despite Wyoming owning over 37 minutes of the time of possession.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota
Another record outing for the Cornhuskers on the road in Minneapolis, as the Minnesota Golden Gophers were absolutely smashed in their worst-ever defeat, as Nebraska scored their most points since a 100-0 smearing of Nebraska Wesleyan in 1917, and their most points ever against a Division I-A team. Irving Fryar set a new wingback reception record of 138 yards on two catches, both tosses the longest of his and QB Turner Gill's careers, and the entire 60-man Cornhusker travel squad had obtained playing time before the start of the 4th quarter.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, UCLA
UCLA put a brief fear into Nebraska in Lincoln, coming in with no wins and jumping out to a 10-0 lead. UCLA QB Rick Neuheisel was sacked in the 2nd half, forcing a fumble which Nebraska recovered, and the momentum then stayed with the Cornhuskers as UCLA was shut down while Nebraska rolled off 42 straight points. This victory was the 100th of Coach Osborne's career. The game was also notable for one of the most famous plays in Nebraska history, a 2-yard touchdown run in which Rozier started left, reversed his field, ran backward to about the 17-yard line while sweeping to the right, and then avoided several more defenders before entering the end zone.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Syracuse
Nebraska QB Turner Gill was 17 interception-free pass completions from the Big 8 all-time record when his streak of 125 was broken by Syracuse S Rob Hobby. No other setbacks could stand in the way of a relatively easy 63-7 Cornhusker domination of the Orangemen.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State
Nebraska was struggling to pull away from Oklahoma State, holding on to a tenuous 4-point lead, and watched three drives into Cowboy territory come up empty due to turnovers. Nebraska S Bret Clark made an end zone interception on the last play of the game to preserve the Cornhusker victory, and Nebraska left Stillwater and the scare behind them as Oklahoma State's decades-long futility against Nebraska continued.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Emboldened by the near-success of Oklahoma State the week prior, Missouri was firing on all cylinders and twice held the lead, trailed Nebraska by just a touchdown at halftime, and prevented Nebraska from pulling away through to the beginning of the 4th quarter. The Blackshirts held strong to prevent any 2nd half scoring by the Tigers, who themselves contributed to the effort by offering up a key fumble turnover, and the Cornhuskers came out of Columbia with the win.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado
Colorado's game plan allowed them to keep up with Nebraska for the 1st half, but halftime adjustments resulted in the Cornhuskers exploding for a Big 8 record 48 points in the 3rd quarter alone, which was also just 1 point short of the NCAA record for points in a quarter. Buffalo CB Victor Scott later stated "It was like someone dropped the atom bomb on us", in regards to the three touchdowns Nebraska put up in the first 2:24 of the 2nd half. During one stretch of the third quarter, the Huskers set an NCAA record by scoring 41 points in 2:41 time of possession.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
This game was closer than the score suggests. Despite trailing 38-5 at the beginning of the 4th quarter, Kansas State scored on the next play, recovered an onside kick and promptly scored again, and then recovered a Nebraska fumble and were marching again, trailing 25-38 with 8:57 to play. Although the Cornhuskers were outscored 13-20 in the 4th quarter, their two touchdowns were more than enough to preserve the win, as Nebraska IB Mike Rozier moved into 2nd place on the Big 8 career rushing chart.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Nebraska IB Mike Rozier set a new Big 8 season touchdown record of 24, supplanting the mark set by Oklahoma's Heisman-winning RB Steve Owens, and also set a new Nebraska career touchdown record of 47, unseating Johnny Rodgers – also a Heisman winner – from his 1972 record. Unsurprisingly at this point, Rozier would go on to win his own Heisman at the end of this season. Nebraska's 72 points were the highest ever scored against a Big 8 team, the most ever scored against any team at Memorial Stadium, and the combined 101 points also the most scored in any game at Memorial Stadium.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas
Nebraska IB Mike Rozier again made history for the second week in a row, increasing his season touchdown record to 28, breaking the NCAA record of 26 held by Lydell Mitchell of Penn State since 1971. In addition, Rozier set new Big 8 and Nebraska records for single season rushing yards, also knocking off the single-season 2,011 all-purpose yardage record set by Nebraska's Johnny Rodgers in 1972, by rolling up a total of 2,219. Rozier set a Nebraska record by rushing for 285 yards, including 230 in the first half (the school individual record for rushings yards in a game was broken by Calvin Jones, who rushed for 294 yards against Kansas in 1991).


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
After the Cornhuskers came from behind twice, the Blackshirts made an epic stand at the end of the game, taking advantage of a motion penalty that moved Oklahoma back from Nebraska's 1-yard line before sacking Sooner QB Danny Bradley and then knocking down two of his subsequent pass attempts with just 32 seconds left to play, which preserved the Cornhusker 7-point lead, the victory, and gave Nebraska its third straight Big 8 Title.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Miami
Nebraska Head Coach Tom Osborne decided to forgo an almost-certain national title from settling for a tie game, and boldly went for a 2-point conversion in the final minute in order to get the win. The attempt failed, Miami won the National Championship, and Coach Osborne's legendary decision was forever embedded in Nebraska lore. The other was the fumblerooski, which resulted a touchdown score by Dean Steinkuhler in the 2nd quarter. The Cornhuskers had battled back from a 17-31 deficit at the start of the fourth quarter without Heisman winning HB Mike Rozier who left due to injury. And despite the loss, Coach Osborne's was selected National Coach of the Year, and his decision came to define his career and the Nebraska program as championship-caliber competitors for years to come.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season
Nebraska's high-octane offense was often unstoppable, averaging 52 points and over 400 rushing yards per game. Mike Rozier finished with a national best 2,486 total yards with 2,148 of those coming on the ground and twenty-nine touchdowns scored. Against Kansas, Rozier rushed for a staggering 230 yards in the first half and finished with 285 rushing yards total, at that time a school record. Rozier went over 200 yards in each of his last four regular season games of the 1983 season. His magical senior season was capped when he was awarded the Heisman Trophy, given to the best individual player in college football.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season
During his senior season, Turner Gill called the signals for one of the most prolific offenses in college football history. Gill finished fourth in the voting for the 1983 Heisman Trophy which was won by teammate Mike Rozier. The Huskers came within a whisker of a national championship, falling just one point short following a failed two-point conversion attempt in the 1984 Orange Bowl.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season
Overall, Gill finished with a 28-2 record in his three years as a starter, winning three consecutive outright Big Eight championships with a perfect 20-0 mark in conference play. Despite this, he was unable to lead the Huskers to a national title, falling agonizingly short in each of his three seasons.


1983 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season, NFL and pro players
The following Nebraska players who participated in the 1983 season later moved on to the next level and joined a professional or semi-pro team as draftees or free agents.


1983 Negev mid-air collision
In May 1983, two Israeli Air Force aircraft, an F-15 Eagle and an A-4 Skyhawk, collided in mid-air during a training exercise over the Negev region, in Israel. Notably, the F-15, (with a crew of two), managed to land safely at a nearby airbase, despite having its right wing almost completely sheared off in the collision. The lifting body properties of the F-15, together with its overabundant engine thrust, allowed the pilot to achieve this unique feat.


1983 Negev mid-air collision, Accident
On 1 May 1983, during an Israeli Air Force dissimilar air combat training session over the Negev, an F-15D Eagle (or Baz) collided with an A-4 Skyhawk. The pilot of the Skyhawk was automatically ejected and his aircraft disintegrated. The right wing of the Eagle was sheared off roughly 2 ft (60 cm) from the root. The crew of the two-seat training version F-15, pilot Zivi Nedivi and navigator Yehoar Gal, did not initially realize the extent of the damage, as fuel leaking profusely and vaporizing at the wing attachment was obscuring their view of the area where the wing once was.


1983 Negev mid-air collision, Accident
The F-15 started rolling uncontrollably after the collision and the instructor ordered an ejection. Nedivi, who outranked the instructor, decided not to eject and attempted recovery by engaging the afterburner, and eventually regained control of the aircraft. He was able to maintain control because of the lift generated by the large areas of the fuselage, stabilators, and remaining wing. Diverting to Ramon Airbase, the F-15 landed at twice the normal speed to maintain the necessary lift, and its tailhook was torn off completely during the landing.


1983 Negev mid-air collision, Accident
Nedivi managed to bring his F-15 to a complete stop approximately 20 ft (6 m) from the end of the runway. He later told The History Channel, "it's highly likely that if I had seen it clearly I would have ejected, because it was obvious you couldn't really fly an airplane like that." He added, "Only when [McDonnell Douglas] later went to analyze it, they said, OK, the F-15 has a very wide [lifting] body; you fly fast enough and you're like a rocket. You don't need wings."


1983 Negev mid-air collision, Aftermath
The aircraft, 106 Squadron's 957 Markia Schakim (Hebrew: מרקיע שחקים, Sky Blazer), was transported by road to an IAF maintenance unit at Tel Nof, where it was repaired. Having already claimed four enemy aircraft during the 1982 Lebanon War, the repaired aircraft was to claim a shared kill of another Syrian MiG-23 on November 19, 1985.


1983 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball)
The 1983 Nemzeti Bajnokság I is the 33rd season of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Hungary's premier Handball league.


1983 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball), Final list
* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point


1983 Netherlands Antilles island council elections
General elections were held in Aruba on 29 April 1983. They were the ninth elections for the Island Council.


1983 Netherlands Antilles island council elections, Saba
General elections were held in Saba on 6 May 1983. The result was a victory for the Windward Islands People's Movement, which won four of the five seats in the Island Council.


1983 Netherlands Antilles island council elections, Sint Maarten
General elections were held in Sint Maarten on 6 May 1983. The Island Council seats increased from five to seven. The result was a victory for the Democratic Party, which won five of the seven Island Council seats.


1983 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The 1983 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Nevada competed as a member of the Big Sky Conference (BSC). The Wolf Pack were led by eighth-year head coach Chris Ault and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.


1983 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Previous season
The Wolf Pack finished the 1982 season 6–5 and 3–4 in BSC play to finish tied in third place.


1983 New England Patriots season
The 1983 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 14th season in the National Football League and 24th overall. The Patriots played inconsistently all season, but at 8–7 had a chance for a playoff spot with a win in their final game of the season in Seattle. The Patriots would have problems with turnovers as rookie quarterback Tony Eason was swallowed up in a 24–6 loss to the Seahawks.


1983 New England Patriots season
In the first week of December, in shocking conditions with sleet and snow, the Patriots’ game with wild card contender New Orleans Saints saw just one score set up by Ricky Smith returning the Saints’ initial kickoff to the 3-yard line. As of 2017, this game remains the most recent 7–0 result in NFL history, with only two games since seeing just one score, both a single field goal.


1983 New Hampshire Wildcats football team
The 1983 New Hampshire Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Hampshire as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1983 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In its twelfth year under head coach Bill Bowes, the team compiled a 7–3 record (3–2 against conference opponents) and finished third out of six teams in the Yankee Conference.


1983 New Jersey State Senate election
The 1983 New Jersey State Senate elections were held on November 8.


1983 New Jersey State Senate election
The election took place mid-way through the first term of Governor Thomas Kean. Democrats gained a net of two seats.


1983 New Mexico Lobos football team
The 1983 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Joe Lee Dunn, the Lobos compiled a 6–6 record (4–3 against WAC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 239 to 233.


1983 New Mexico Lobos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Buddy Funck with 1,521 passing yards, Michael Johnson with 739 rushing yards, Derwin Williams with 677 receiving yards, and kicker Joe Bibbo with 61 points scored.


1983 New Mexico State Aggies football team
The 1983 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University in the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1983 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first year under head coach Fred Zechman, the Aggies compiled a 5–6 record. The team played its home games at Aggie Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.


1983 New Orleans Saints season
The 1983 New Orleans Saints season was the team’s 17th as a member of the National Football League. They improved on their previous season’s output of 4–5, winning eight games. Despite the improvement, the team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the seventeenth consecutive season.


1983 New Orleans Saints season
With an 8–7 record going into the final game of the season at the Superdome against the Los Angeles Rams, the Saints, with a win, would have finished with their first winning season and their first playoff berth. However, Rams kicker Mike Lansford kicked a 42-yard field goal with :06 left to defeat the Saints 26-24, and advance to the playoffs. Other than that field goal, the Rams did not score a single point on offense, instead scoring via a punt return for a touchdown, two interception returns for touchdowns, and a safety.


1983 New Orleans Saints season
Two weeks earlier the Saints lost to the New England Patriots in shocking conditions with sleet and snow – with the only score being set up by Patriot Ricky Smith returning the initial kickoff to the 3-yard line. As of 2017, this game remains the most recent 7–0 result in NFL history, with only two games since seeing just one score, both a single field goal.


1983 New Orleans Saints season
Another damaging loss came on Monday Night Football in week 12, when the New York Jets rallied from a 14-point deficit by scoring 17 unanswered points in the fourth quarter, capped off by a 76-yard punt return touchdown by Kirk Springs, to stun the Saints 31-28. The Saints had a chance to force overtime in the closing seconds, but Morten Andersen missed badly to the left on a 51-yard field goal attempt.


1983 New South Wales Open
The 1983 New South Wales Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney, Australia. The men's tournament, named ANZ Bank NSW Open, was part of the 1983 Volvo Grand Prix and held from 12 December until 18 December 1983. The women's tournament, known as the NSW Building Society Open, was part of the 1983 Virginia Slims World Championship Series and was played from 21 November through 27 November 1983. It was the 92nd edition of the tournament. Third-seeded Jo Durie won the women's singles title, the first British female player to do so since Dorothy Round in 1934.


1983 New South Wales Open, Finals, Women's Doubles
Anne Hobbs /  Wendy Turnbull defeated  Hana Mandlíková /  Helena Suková 6–4, 6–3


1983 New South Wales Open, Finals, Men's Doubles
Pat Cash /  Mike Bauer defeated  Broderick Dyke /  Rod Frawley 7–6, 6–4


1983 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1983 were appointments by most of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries. They were announced on 31 December 1982 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1983 in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Cook Islands, the Bahamas, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, and Antigua & Barbuda.


1983 New Year Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1983 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Royal Victorian Order, Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.