Saturday night brings a milestone to Columbia, and Missouri gets to celebrate it on the field. The 20th-ranked Tigers, 2-0, host Troy, also 2-0, at Faurot Field with kickoff set for 6 p.m. CT on SEC Network+.
This one doubles as the 100th anniversary of Memorial Stadium, and Missouri is marking the occasion with throwback uniforms built to nod toward the program’s past. The look includes a 1920s-style “M” on the jersey, 1970s sleeve stripes, a narrow Block M on the helmet with a gray facemask from 1971 and Columns on the front bumper, plus a historic gold shade of pants.
The stadium’s story reaches back to 1919, when Walter Miller, then the Dean of the Graduate Faculty, used a commencement speech to urge construction of a memorial for the 112 Missouri alumni who died in World War I. By 1921, a committee of faculty, staff and administrators was raising money for what became the Memorial Student Union, and that effort eventually grew to include a football stadium. Ground was broken in December 1925, and the result was a 25,000-seat venue with a full track surrounding the field.
They named it Memorial Stadium.
The first game there came on Oct. 2, 1926, and the weather made sure nobody forgot it. The Columbia Daily Tribune wrote that rain had turned the field into “a sea of mud at game time,” and added that “Ushers were having difficulty in keeping the crowd out of the press box.”
Missouri played Tulane that day in a rematch of their 6-6 tie the season before in New Orleans. The game was delayed a bit by the storm, and after a scoreless first half, “an airplane swooped down over the crowd carrying Tulane and Missouri colors.
The airplane circled the field again and dropped a football on the gridiron,” the Tribune said.
The game ended 0-0 in front of 10,000 fans. Missouri did not score in the new stadium until two weeks later, when Emmett “Abe” Stuber hit Bert Clark on a 7-yard touchdown pass against SMU. That game also finished tied, 7-7, after Stuber’s late field-goal try hit the goal post.
The Tigers finally got their first Memorial Stadium win in November of that first season, rolling past Washington 45-6 on Nov. 13. A week later, they beat Kansas 15-0 at home to close out a 5-1-2 record in 1926.
A century later, Missouri is still in the same place, though the stadium around it looks very different. The South End Zone concourse is in place, the North End Zone has been renovated, the press box is secure, and the surface has gone through a long evolution from grass to Omniturf and back again before moving on to FieldTurf and now AstroTurf.
The home results have held up, too. Missouri is 324-197-19 at Memorial Stadium over the last 100 years. Under Eli Drinkwitz, now in his seventh season, the Tigers are 34-9 at home, including 17-2 in their last 19 home games and 25-5 over their last 30.
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