The 1901 Nevada State Sagebrushers football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented Nevada State University (now known as the

University of Nevada, Reno The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, the University of Nevada, or UNR) is a public land-grant research university in Reno, Nevada. It is the state's flagship public university and primary land grant institution. It was founded on October 12, ...

) as an independent during the

1901 college football season The 1901 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Michigan, Yale, and Harvard as having been selected retrospectively as national champions. Harvard beat Yale 22– ...

. In its first season under head coach

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, the team compiled a 3–3 record.

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