In a tweet Saturday, the players wrote: „The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team truly believe ‚Injustice Anywhere is a threat to Justice Everywhere.‘ We will no longer participate in any football related activities until President Tim Wolfe resigns or is removed due to his negligence toward marginalized students’ experience.“

The move comes amid increasing protest over racial slurs and the appearance of a swastika drawn in feces in a dormitory. For a week, an African-American graduate student, Jonathan Butler, has been on hunger strike, and protesters have been camping out to support his call for Wolfe’s resignation.