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About The Missouri Tigers

Both the men's and women's teams are often called the Tigers. Mizzou is a member of the Big 12 Conference and is the only NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision program in Missouri. Their official uniform colors are black and gold, and the logo is a stylized tiger inside an oval and a large, gold letter M. The home games are played at the Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium, and the current coach is Gary Pinkel. The university's first football team was formed in 1890 by the sophomore class of the "Academic School", who is now the College of Arts and Science, and they challenged a team of Engineering students in April of that year upon encouragement of Dr. A. L. McRea, a university professor. The interest in the sport quickly grew among the professors, students and administrators, and at a meeting on October 10, 1890 was formed the Foot Ball Association. On Thanksgiving Day, 1890, the first intercollegiate game for the university took place when Missouri played against Washington University before a crowd of 3,000 in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Washington University team, which had already been playing for several years, easily defeated the University of Missouri team by a score of 28-0.