Bring MU Tigers Football into your home with this University of Missouri Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field Panoramic Picture Unframed Poster! This panorama of Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field taken by James Blakeway captures the Missouri Tigers football team in action. Nicknamed The Zou this horseshoe-shaped stadium opened in 1926 at a cost of $350000 and now seats 68349 fans. In 1972 Faurot Field was named in honor of the legendary Mizzou football coach Don Faurot. A giant letter M made of whitewashed rocks carved by freshman in 1927 marks the north endzone giving the stadium one of the most unique landmarks in the country. The University part of the Big 12 Conference and founded in 1839 in Columbia Missouri was the first public university west of the Mississippi River. Today enrollment tops 28400.