This weekend, your University of Kentucky Wildcats will travel to Columbia, Missouri to take on the Missouri Tigers. While I hear “CoMo” is a charming college town, Mizzou’s Faurot Field is kind of strange. If you’re headed to the game or if you’re simply curious, here’s a little more about the stadium the Tigers call home.
What’s a Faurot?
Here’s where things start to get confusing. Missouri plays on Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium. The building was named Memorial Stadium when it opened in 1926 in memory of the 112 alumni and students who died in World War I.