the UNLV Rebel and UNR Wolf Pack football teams will compete for the Fremont Cannon, a 545-pound replica of the howitzer that legendary explorer John C. Fremont abandoned in the Sierra Nevada snow ...

and UNLV gets to keep the Fremont Cannon for the third year in a row. That’s the Rebels' longest winning streak against their northern neighbors since the John Robinson-coached teams won five in ...

Major John C. Frémont (1813-90), popularly admired for his mapmaking expeditions to the West, was court-martialed on grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders on Jan. 31, 1848. General Stephen ...

RENO — The Fremont Cannon weighs 545 pounds, requiring wheeling from UNLV’s sideline inside Mackay Stadium across the football field, down a long paved pathway — and into an ebullient Rebels ...