The 1961 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the
University of Nevada
The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, the University of Nevada, or UNR) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Reno, Nevada. It is the state's flagship public university and primary land grant ...
during the
1961 NCAA College Division football season
The 1961 NCAA College Division football season was the sixth season of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the NCAA College Division level.
Conference standings
Rankings
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. Nevada competed as a member of the
Far Western Conference
The Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC) was an NCAA Division II college athletic association that sponsored American football that was founded in 1925. It disbanded in 1998 after the majority of its member schools were forced to drop fo ...
(FWC). The Wolf Pack were led by third-year head coach
Dick Trachok
Richard Matthew Trachok (December 27, 1925''Dick Trachok: Memories of a Life in Sports'', University of Nevada, Reno, 2014. – August 2, 2020) was an American university athletic director and college football coach. He served as the head coach at ...
and played their home games at
Mackay Stadium
Mackay Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium in the western United States, located on the campus of the University of Nevada in Reno, Nevada. The home venue for Nevada Wolf Pack football and women's soccer in the Mountain West Conference. it  ...
.
Schedule
References
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Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
Nevada Wolf Pack football seasons
Nevada Wolf Pack football
The Nevada Wolf Pack football program represents the University of Nevada, Reno (commonly referred to as "Nevada" in athletics) in college football. The Wolf Pack competes in the Mountain West Conference at the Football Bowl Subdivision level of ...