The 1973 NCAA National Championship Men's Indoor Track & Field Team is the lone Division I Team National Championship in Manhattan history. Manhattan became the first New York metro school to win an indoor or outdoor NCAA National Championship in track and field.
 
Manhattan won the national championship in the final race. The Jaspers won the distance medley relay in a new world record time to clinch the title with 18 team points. The Manhattan team of John Lovett, Ray Johnson, Joe Savage, and Tony Colon had qualified for the final on Friday with the fastest time. In the Saturday final, Manhattan won by almost 5 seconds and set a new world record of 9:43.8 on an 11-lap banked track.
 
That year, Mike Keogh won the two-mile run in 8:38, beating David Wottle of Bowling Green. Wottle was the Olympic champion in the two-mile run at the 1972 Munich Olympics. That season, Clifford Bruce and Ken McBryde finished third in the 1000m and triple jump, respectively.
 
In 1973, the Jaspers also won the IC4A Championship and the Metropolitan Championships for the third straight season. 
 
Seven members of the team earned All-American honors and are members of the Manhattan Hall of Fame. Fred Dwyer was named the 1973 National Coach of the Year.