Names like Frank Hawkins, Chris Vargas, Trevor Insley, Alex Van Dyke, Nate Burleson, Colin Kaepernick, Vai Taua and Cody Fajardo will be etched into the minds of Wolf Pack football fans forever.
Each rewrote the national record books, but none of that would have been possible if not for the guys standing in front of them: the offensive line, dubbed decades ago The Union.
Offensive linemen like Todd Wilcks, Roberto Salden, Derek Kennard, Greg Rea, Shar Pourdanesh, Harvey Dahl, Tony Moll, Dominic Green, John Bender, Jeff Nady, Chris Barker and Joel Bitonio, among many others, might not be household names in Northern Nevada, but they were always the driving force behind Nevada’s record-setting offenses.