University of Missouri Football team
(TriceEdneyWire.com) — Tim Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri, announced in a Monday news conference that he was resigning from his post amid an ongoing controversy regarding race relations at the school. Wolfe’s resignation comes just two days after the school’s African-American football players announced they would refuse to play until Wolfe’s resigned. If the game did not take place, the university would have lost $1 million in revenues.
Black football players at the University of Missouri joined calls demanding the ouster of the president of the state’s four-campus university system over alleged inaction against racism on campus. About 30 players made their thoughts known Saturday night in a tweet posted by Missouri’s Legion of Black Collegians.
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