| The Battle for Nevada is the name of the annual | | | | unique. In addition to bragging rights the award |
| football game played between the University of | | | | being played for is the right keep the Fremont |
| Nevada at Reno Wolf Pack and the University of | | | | Cannon trophy at the campus of the winning |
| Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) Rebels. The winner | | | | school at least until the teams square off again |
| of this annual contest gets to take home the | | | | during the following season. The Fremont Cannon |
| prized Fremont Cannon trophy. | | | | trophy cost $10,000 to build and weighs 545 |
| Despite the fact that both of these schools are in | | | | pounds. Those astounding statistics make this |
| the state of Nevada they are not exactly next | | | | traveling trophy both the most expensive and the |
| door neighbors. By car it takes about seven hours | | | | heaviest award of trophy in all of college football. |
| and ten minutes to cover the 450 mile drive from | | | | The design of the Fremont Cannon trophy is that |
| Las Vegas to Reno. Despite the appalling distance | | | | of a Howitzer cannon from the 1800s. This |
| from one college to the other faithful students | | | | specific sort of cannon traveled with explorer |
| dutifully make the road trip every year for the | | | | John Fremont when he traversed the sparsely |
| much anticipated Battle for Nevada football game. | | | | populated Nevada landscape amongst Native |
| The location of where the holder of the Fremont | | | | Americans and miles of harsh desert. The idea for |
| Cannon trophy is decided alternates between | | | | such an extravagant award for the winner of the |
| being played at Sam Boyd Stadium (maximum | | | | Battle of Nevada game came from a bipartisan |
| occupancy 36,800) in Las Vegas at the home field | | | | source in former UNLV head coach Bill Ireland (the |
| of the UNLV Rebels and at Mackay Stadium, a | | | | first UNLV head football coach) who in addition to |
| 30,000 seat stadium that is home to the | | | | coaching the Rebels was an alum and former |
| University of Nevada Wolf Pack. | | | | coach at the University of Nevada. The trophy |
| While it is somewhat common for intrastate | | | | idea that Ireland had was in part inspired by the |
| colleges to have some sort of rivalry football | | | | intriguing historical rumor that the real Fremont |
| game the specifics of what is at stake when | | | | Cannon is buried in the snow somewhere in the |
| these two teams go head to head are quite | | | | Sierra Nevada mountain range. |
