The Missouri Tigers intercollegiate athletics programs represent the University of Missouri, located in Columbia. The name comes from a band of armed Union Home Guards called the Fighting Tigers of Columbia who, in 1864, protected Columbia from Confederate guerrillas during the American Civil War.
From left to right, Tigers Hearnes Center, Mizzou Arena and Faurot Field.
A Tigers pitcher in 2008
Chase Daniel takes a snap in the first quarter of the 2007 Mizzou vs. Nebraska football game.
A Missouri wrestler (left) after winning a match against a Navy Midshipmen wrestler in 2012
The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi River. It has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1908 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".
Fire at Academic Hall, 1892
Journalist Marguerite Martyn visited the campus in 1910 and sketched these two fashionable students with the architectural columns behind them. At that time, the school was named Missouri State University.
Francis Quadrangle features the columns and Jesse Hall.
Tower of Memorial Union
