University of Nevada Athletics

Football, Basketball, Track & Field (1945-49)
Max Dodge was an end and a punter on the Nevada football team from 1945 to 1946 and a center on the Nevada men's basketball team for the 1946 and 1947 seasons. He started his college career at Washington State before spending three years in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant in the infantry. He resumed his college career at Nevada and earned second team All-Pacific Coast League honors at end in 1945. A talented track and field athlete, he won the 1947 AAU junior crown in the discus and finished fourth in the senior event. Dodge just missed qualifying for the Olympics in the discus in 1948 after faulting in the finals.