Two junior college transfers and two prep products have enrolled in classes this semester at the University of Nevada, the Wolf Pack football program announced today.

Defensive backs Nigel Haikins and Markus Smith, both juniors, join the Wolf Pack from the junior college ranks while Reggie Coates and Andrew Main previously signed National Letters of Intent with Nevada in 2011 and delayed enrollment until the spring semester.

Haikins is 5-10 and 205 pounds and comes to Nevada from Diablo Valley College in the Bay Area. Smith is 6-1, 185 and joins the Pack from Riverside (Calif.) Community College.

Coates (Crespi HS; Canoga Park, Calif.) is a 6-1, 240-pound freshman defensive end while Main (Los Alamitos HS; Los Alamitos, Calif.) is a 6-3, 270-pound freshman offensive lineman.

More information on the players will be available along with the rest of the 2012 signing class, which will be announced Feb. 1

HAIL to our sturdy team, loyal and true,
MARCH, march on down the field oh Silver and Blue!

We’ll give a long cheer for NEVADA’s team,
See them break through again,
Fighting for our own U of N to victory.

N – E – V – A – D – A
NEVADA!

The Law of the Jungle

“The Law of the Jungle” is a poem from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. It is recited before each home football and basketball game in a chant led by the student section.

Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back –
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

The chorus is followed by a wolf’s howl played over the stadium sound system and echoed throughout the venue by the fans in attendance.

The Blue Crew

One of Nevada’s youngest traditions, the Blue Crew was a student booster organization that debuted in the 2003-04 academic year. The crew was started as a way to bring out the spirit of the Silver and Blue in current students. As many of the teams began to claim, or re-claim for some, success and glory, it become necessary for the students to organize under a single banner to show their undying support for the Pack.

The Blue Crew gets bonuses, as in a frequent flyer program. Each member presents an ID and garners points for coming to events. They get free Blue Crew T-shirts from Pepsi (the university’s soft drink supplier) and swipe cards for discounts at area stores.

Painting the “N”

Hillside letters are a common site in the Western U.S. and on the side of Peavine Peak proudly sits the “N” of Nevada. Every fall during the football season, a group of avid supporters and student make the trek up the hill to add a fresh coat of paint to the “N.”

The Fremont Cannon

The Fremont Cannon – one of college football’s largest and most expensive “trophies” – is now over 30 years old and is the prize sought after when two in-state rivals, The University of Nevada and UNLV, meet each fall in football.

Nevada’s two university football teams annually play for the right to house the mountain howitzer each season. Today’s cannon is a replica of a gun that accompanied Captain John C. Fremont on his expedition through Oregon, Nevada and California in 1843-44.

The replica cannon was reconstructed in 1970 as the gift of the Nevada Mines Division of Kennecott Copper Corporation to the students of the two campuses of the University of Nevada. It was built from engineering and technical drawings from the military archives of the United States Army.

Bill Ireland, a 1952 Nevada alumnus who was UNLV’s first football coach, deserves credit for connecting athletics boosters on each end of the state with Howard Winn, Kennecott general manager in White Pine County. Ireland, a McGill native, was able to sell Winn on the idea along with Wolf Pack boosters such as Bill Parish, a 1945 alumnus who played for the Wolf Pack in the early 1940s.

“One of the things I sold Kennecott on was that if they supported it, this would truly become a statewide trophy, including the cow counties,” said Ireland, who coached baseball and football at Nevada before a distinguished career as head football coach and later athletic director at UNLV.

The Wolf Pack won the first game between the universities in 1969, but the Rebels were the first team to capture the cannon in 1970 by a score of 42-20. The winner is allowed to paint the cannon its school colors while it has possession of it.

“It’s the most symbolic “trophy” for winning a state championship in the country and as much a part of the football tradition as the game itself,” Nevada head coach Chris Ault said. “The Fremont Cannon is such a monumental trophy that we built a spot for it when we built Cashell Fieldhouse in the 1980’s.”

Today, the cannon resides in its “home” in the renovated Cashell Football Center. A special alcove was reserved for the cannon when renovations were completed a couple of years ago. More on the Fremont Cannon.

Nevada Wolf Pack Athletics

The Wolf Pack

The Nevada Wolf Pack, one of only two teams nationally to use the designation (North Carolina State is the other, though they use Wolfpack as one word while Nevada uses two words with a capital ‘P’), has been using the Wolf Pack designation since at least the early 1920s.

Nevada’s first athletic teams in the late 1890s and early 1900s were referred to as the Sagebrushers or even the Sage Hens after Nevada’s state flowering plant, the sagebrush. There are references in print to the ‘Sage Warriors’, although none of these names were the official mascot of Nevada’s athletic teams.

In the 1921-22 athletic season, a local writer described the spirited play of a Nevada team as a ‘pack of wolves’. The name stuck and soon almost every reference to the athletic teams was the Nevada Wolves. In 1923, the students officially designated ‘Wolves’ as the school’s mascot.

Since all teams are a group of players, the word pack followed quickly. In 1928-29, the Nevada student handbook referred to the athletic teams as Wolf Pack and two school songs were adopted, entitled ‘The Wolf Pack’ and ‘Here Comes the Wolf Pack’.

The Nevada Fight Song

HAIL to our sturdy team, loyal and true,
MARCH, march on down the field oh Silver and Blue!

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Nevada To Face Southern Miss In Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl

HONOLULU, Hawai`i – The University of Nevada will make its third appearance in the Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl after accepting an invitation to play in the 2011 game, Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl Executive Director David A. K. Matlin announced. The Wolf Pack (7-5) will represent the Western Athletic Conference and will play Conference USA champion Southern Miss on Christmas Eve.

“On behalf of the Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl Executive Committee and Sheraton Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, I am pleased to invite the University of Nevada Wolf Pack to the 10th annual Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl,” Matlin said. “Led by Hall of Fame coach Chris Ault, the Wolf Pack will spend their last season in the WAC with a postseason trip to Honolulu!”

“We are appreciative of the opportunity to play in the Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl and we’re excited to be able to showcase our university and represent Nevada on national television on Christmas Eve,” said Nevada Athletics Director Cary Groth.

Nevada finished in a tie for second in the WAC standings with a 5-2 conference mark. The Wolf Pack will be making a bowl appearance for the seventh consecutive year and third in the Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl since 2005. Nevada defeated Central Florida 49-48 in 2005 and lost to SMU 45-10 in 2009. Nevada will be competing in its 12th all-time bowl.

“One of the most memorable games in our history featured the University of Nevada defeating UC, 49-48 in overtime,” Matlin said. “With an exciting style of play, featuring the WAC’s leading receiver Rishard Matthews, Nevada will represent the WAC well.”
The Wolf Pack has the nation’s fifth-most potent offense, averaging 522.8 yards per game and also ranks eighth nationally in rushing offense at 251.8 yards per game. Matthews is among the nation’s leaders in receiving (91 rec., 1,364 yds.) and has seven 100-yard receiving games.

“The Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl is a class bowl and playing a nationally ranked Southern Miss team presents us with a great opportunity,” Nevada head coach Chris Ault said.

The Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Kickoff for the 2011 Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl is Saturday, Dec.  24 at 8 p.m. EST/3 p.m. HST, on ESPN from Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. Tickets are available by calling 808-548-BOWL or online at www.sheratonhawaiibowl.com.

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Wolf Pack fans are encouraged to bring donations of non-perishable food to the men’s basketball game vs. Washington at 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2 and the football game vs. Idaho at 1:05 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3. Food barrels will be available at the entrances at both Lawlor Events Center and Mackay Stadium.

Tickets are available for both games by visiting at the Lawlor Events Center ticket office, calling (775) 348-PACK (7225) or going online at www.NevadaWolfPack.com.

The Food Bank especially needs the following items: canned meats, fish and nuts, peanut butter, macaroni & cheese, powdered milk, baby formula and food, canned meals: stews, ravioli, chili and hearty soups, canned fruits and juices, canned vegetables, spaghetti sauce, dry cereal, oatmeal, rice and pasta.

The donations will be delivered to the Food Bank of Northern Nevada to distribute this holiday season.

The Food Bank of Northern Nevada is a regional food distribution and support system serving over 125 partner agencies in Northern Nevada and the Eastern Sierra. The Food Bank of Northern Nevada provides and supports programs including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs and Kids Cafe (dinner program), Kids Cafe Summer Meals program, Food Stamp Outreach and much more.

One in five children in Nevada live in a home where there is not enough food for three meals per day, and one in six people in Nevada needs to seek food assistance to make ends meet. Among clients who visit emergency food program sites, children are the most vulnerable to hunger; 46 percent of emergency food recipients are children under the age of 18. Last year the Food Bank of Northern Nevada provided over four million meals to low income seniors, children and families.

This week’s food drives are part of Nevada Athletics’ on-going partnership with the Food Bank of Northern Nevada and the goal of creating “One Hunger-Free Community, One Pack.”

Wolf Pack student-athletes, coaches and staff will be participating in volunteer activities with the Food Bank of Northern Nevada throughout the year and started with a “Pack the Pack” Pay-it-Forward Party to put together snack packs for the Backpack Kids program in September. Other planned activities include volunteer nights at the food bank and other events, challenges and food drives at home games.

Last year, Wolf Pack fans stepped up to help the Food Bank raise funds to provide over 112,000 meals and collect 5,456 pounds of food in December and January as part of the football team’s participation in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.

For more information about the Wolf Pack or the Food Bank of Northern Nevada, please visit www.NevadaWolfPack.com or www.fbnn.org.

Nevada Wolf Pack Football

Nevada (6-3, 4-0) vs. LA Tech (6-4, 4-1)

Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011   -  1:05 p.m. PT
Mackay Stadium   -   Reno, Nev.

RADIO:  Wolf Pack Radio Network (Flagship: ESPN Radio 94.5 FM/630 AM) with Ryan Radtke (PxP) and Chris Vargas (analyst). Pre-game show with the broadcast crew begins 90 minutes prior to kickoff.
TV: None. Live video/audio streaming at www.NevadaWolfPack.com
SERIES HISTORY: Nevada leads the all-time series 7-4 and the Pack has won the last six meetings.
LAST MEETING: The Wolf Pack clinched the 2010 WAC title with a 35-17 win in Ruston, La.

THE SKINNY
After exacting a wee bit of revenge last week against Hawaii, the Nevada football team gears up for a showdown between the top two teams in the WAC standings as Louisiana Tech comes to town on Saturday … A win will give Nevada at least a share of the WAC title … There is no television broadcast scheduled for this game … Nevada enters the game with a 16-game home winning streak at Mackay Stadium, which is tied for the second-longest in the country … The Wolf Pack has the reigning WAC Offensive Player of the Week in quarterback Cody Fajardo … The Wolf Pack is already bowl eligible for the seventh straight season … Nevada is the only team in the WAC that controls its own destiny in terms of winning an outright title … Nevada has won 10 straight WAC games overall (last loss at Hawaii in 2010) and 10 straight WAC home games (last loss vs. Boise State in 2008) … Nevada leads the WAC and is fifth nationally in total offense at 524.25 ypg … Nevada players lead the WAC in five different statistical categories … Nevada was picked third in the WAC in preseason voting by coaches and media, behind Hawaii and Fresno State … Nevada won the WAC Championship last year along with Boise State and Hawaii … Nevada returns 14 starters (6/7/1) from last year’s 13-1 team and 31 overall letterwinners (15/15/1) … Amongst the returners are four All-WAC players in 2010 in senior wideout Rishard Matthews, junior offensive lineman Chris Barker, senior linebacker James-Michael Johnson and senior cornerback Isaiah Frey.

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Game-Day Parking Information

Mackay Stadium Fan Game-Day Guide

Nevada Wolf Pack fans should allow extra time to get to this weekend’s 4:05 p.m. game against UNLV at Mackay Stadium. Spectators are encouraged to avoid I-80 east and westbound Virginia Street off-ramps due to road construction and instead, access the University campus via West McCarran Blvd. Fans can also customize alternate routes by visiting KeepRenoSparksMoving.com/Customize-My-Route.

Over 2,000 free parking spaces are available in close proximity to Mackay Stadium in addition to donor and pass parking lots. Fans can park for free on levels 4, 5 and 6 of the West Stadium Parking Complex as well as on all levels of the Brian Whalen Parking Garage and in the surface lots surrounding Peccole Park off of Evans Avenue. Evans Avenue can be easily accessed from North McCarran Blvd. as can both parking garages, are located on Virginia Street. The north lot, formerly a free lot, is now the Fan Club lot, and Nevada donors who have given at least $100 to the Pack Educational Fund have received passes for that lot.

Fans can also eliminate parking altogether by utilizing the free Sierra Spirit bus, which has extended its hours until 9 p.m. Saturday night. Sierra Spirit has stops along Virginia Street throughout the University and downtown Reno corridors.

“Saturday is going to be a very busy day and we’ve worked hard with campus police, the RTC, NDOT and Reno Police Department to make sure that we are prepared to make traffic flow in and out of the University area as easy and hassle free as possible,” said Rory Hickok, senior associate athletic director. “Everyone is excited. It’s the first home game of the season and it’s against UNLV. However, we do want everyone to be safe and take note of the parking changes as well as the road construction before they come out to the game.”

Those driving to the game should consider alternate routes to avoid road construction. Fans coming from the following areas are advised to access University parking areas via the following routes:

• Northwest Reno and Sparks: West / North McCarran Boulevard.

• South Reno: exit 395 North on North McCarran Boulevard.

• North Valleys: Business Route 395/North Virginia Street.

• Downtown/Old Southwest Reno: Virginia and Sierra streets or North McCarran via Keystone Avenue.

All University parking lots open four hours before kickoff on game day. A parking map for 2011 Nevada football game days is available by clicking here. Also available to Wolf Pack fans is the Mackay Stadium Game-Day Guide including information regarding tickets, tailgating, seating and fan services.

Fans can obtain a season-long parking pass in the north lot with a $100 donation to the Pack Educational Fund, and can also purchase an RV pass for $150 for the season. Contact Meredith Montoya at 775-682-6905 or mmontoya@unr.edu for more information.

Additionally, all fans are encouraged to show Nevada pride by wearing blue on Saturday.

“This is a highly anticipated game, both as our home opener and also as the biggest rivalry game of the season,” added Hickok. “We’re going to have a full house this weekend and we want to see a sea of Nevada Blue in the crowd. We also want everyone to get in and out safely, which is why we’re making a special effort to ensure that everyone has the information they need to get to and from the game as easily as possible on Saturday.”

Tickets are still available for Saturday’s game with the Rebels and can be purchased by visiting the Lawlor Events Center ticket office, calling (775) 348-PACK (7225) or going online at www.MyNevadaTickets.com.

For more information on University of Nevada Athletics, please visit www.NevadaWolfPack.com or call 775-784-6900.

Nevada Wolf Pack Footbal

RADIO:  Wolf Pack Radio Network (Flagship: ESPN Radio 94.5 FM/630 AM) with Ryan Radtke (PxP) and Chris Vargas (analyst). Pre-game show with the broadcast crew begins 90 minutes prior to kickoff.
TV: Will be televised in Southern Nevada via Cox Cable. Tim Neverett (PxP) and Blayne Boyer (analyst). Broadcast also available on ESPN3 (online).
SERIES HISTORY: Nevada leads the all-time series between the teams 21-15 and the Pack has won the last six in a row.
LAST MEETING: The Wolf Pack notched a series-record sixth-straight win against their rivals with a 44-26 victory in Las Vegas.

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Nevada will induct former Wolf Pack standouts Suzy Catterson Kole (swimming and diving), Joe Inglett (baseball), Geoff Noisy (football), Suzanne Stonebarger Barnes (volleyball) and Treamelle Taylor (football) into the Nevada Athletics Hall of Fame that night.

The event will start at 6 p.m. with no-host cocktails followed by dinner and the program at 7 p.m. The cost of the dinner is $50 per person.

In addition to honoring the latest Hall of Fame inductees, Nevada will also present coins to the inaugural members of the Wolf Pack Varsity Club at this year’s Hall of Fame Dinner.

Former student-athletes, coaches, cheerleaders, dance team members and staff are encouraged to sign up for the Wolf Pack Varsity Club using the online questionnaire at www.NevadaWolfPack.com.

The Hall of Fame inductees as well as members of the Wolf Pack Varsity Club will also be recognized in a pregame tailgate and on the field during the Hall of Fame football game against UNLV at 4:05 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8 at Mackay Stadium.

For more information or to purchase tickets for this year’s Hall of Fame Dinner, call (775) 682-6901, while tickets for the Hall of Fame game are available by visiting the Lawlor Events Center Ticket Office, calling (775) 348-PACK (7225) or going online at www.MyNevadaTickets.com.

More information about the Wolf Pack Varsity Club is available by contacting Trisha Gibbons at (775) 682-6901 or tgibbons@unr.edu.

Nevada Wolf Pack Athletics

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Former NFL player Jon Haskins will serve as the team’s Director of Player Personnel while former Wolf Pack staffer Dave Brown returns to the program as the Director of Football Operations. Both positions are funded from external sources.

“The additions of a DFO and DPP to our program provide my staff the opportunity to focus on their coaching and recruiting responsibilities,” Ault said. “These are positions that most FBS schools have long had and they are critical to continuing to build and maintain a strong program. Having these positions will allow our program – from myself to my coaching staff and on down – to function more effectively and efficiently.”

Haskins comes to Nevada after three years in the same position at Stanford University, his alma mater. A two-time honorable mention All-Pac-10 linebacker, Haskins was picked in the seventh round of the NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers and his NFL career also included time with the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Stanford graduate also spent time at Duke, where he served as a graduate assistant from 2002-04, assisting with the offensive line before coaching the tight ends in his final season. His professional career also includes time with The Sports Studio as a technical advisor for sports scenes in motion picture productions, television commercials and print advertising campaigns.

“This was a critical hire,” Ault said. “Having a full-time recruiter and evaluator will allow us to double our recruiting base, dramatically improve our evaluation process and, more importantly, allow all of my coaches to spend more time in developing recruiting contacts and coaching relationships. We have been at a recruiting disadvantage for such a long time and I believe the impact of this position will be dramatic right away in terms of creating competition at each position and allowing our coaches to develop a more thorough evaluation process.”

Brown returns to Nevada after one season as the run-game coordinator and wide receivers coach at Portland State. He previously spent four seasons at Nevada in a variety of roles, including quality control/video coordinator in 2006 and then three years as a graduate assistant coach working alongside Ault with the quarterbacks.

A college quarterback who played at Central Missouri State University, Brown spent five years coaching running backs at his alma mater before coming to Nevada in 2006. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Central Missouri State in addition to a master’s in educational psychology from Nevada.

“I’m glad to have Dave back as he is very familiar with our program and, more importantly, the administrative part of football,” Ault said. “There is no question that he will relieve some of the administrative work that my coaches have had to do in the past. He will be a great ambassador for Wolf Pack football within the community.”

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Nevada will expand it’s presence at the 2011 Reno Tahoe Open.

RENO, Nev. –

Wolf Pack coaches, student-athletes, staff, cheerleaders and mascots as well as representatives from all over the University of Nevada campus will be out at the 2011 Reno-Tahoe Open this week at Montrêux Golf and Country Club.

As part of Nevada’s One Community, One Pack initiative, representatives from the Nevada athletics department are volunteering at RTO events all week, including the pairings parties and pro-ams, the Patriots Luncheon and Women’s Day.

In addition, a great lineup of Wolf Pack coaches and university employees will be out at Champion Chevrolet’s Pack Pavilion presented by Silver & Blue Outfitters and Western Nevada Supply. Fans can socialize with Nevada’s staff at the large blue tent on the green at the signature 17th hole from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, August 4-7. Fans can enter Champion Chevrolet’s Pack Pavilion for free by wearing their Wolf Pack blue ($5 payable at the door if not wearing blue).

University President Marc Johnson will be on hand at Pack Pavilion on Thursday. Wolf Pack Director of Athletics Cary Groth and head coaches Sylvain Malroux (women’s tennis) and Shantel Twiggs (track and field) will be there on Friday. Representatives from the university’s College of Engineering will be on hand on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday’s lineup includes Nevada head coaches Jane Albright (women’s basketball), Matt Meuchel (softball), Dr. Melissa Price (soccer) and Ruth Lawanson (volleyball).  In addition, Alicia Barber of the university’s Oral History Project will be on hand selling copies of the book, We Were All Athletes, an oral history project that details the growth of women’s athletics at the University of Nevada, as part of the RTO’s Women’s Day.
Head men’s basketball coach David Carter will be on hand on Sunday. Carter will be joined on Sunday afternoon by Zeb Hogan, research biologist and star of National Geographic’s “Monster Fish” series, and Sudeep Chandra, research limnologist and expert in the aquatic health and research of the Lake Tahoe Basin.

Bully’s Sports Bar will be selling food and beverages and Silver and Blue Outfitters will have Wolf Pack apparel for sale near Pack Pavilion each day.

Tickets to the Reno-Tahoe Open are available for sale on their website at www.renotahoeopen.com or at the gate at Montrêux each day.

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