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!"#$%&"'(%)*+% ,*-./%0-*1*23 Jannee Sullivan Senior Staff Writer Home football games are known for bringing thousands of Razorback fans to town. Fans who eat, drink and stay in Fayetteville, often for the whole weekend, bolster the local economy in several different ways, a Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce official said. A conference match like this weekend’s game with Alabama brings in tens of
thousands of spectators and tailgaters who boost sales at bars, restaurants, hotel, liquor stores and grocery stores, said Chung Tan, the manager of economic development at the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce. “In general terms, game weekends are definitely a money-maker,” she said. The only way to calculate the real impact of the visitors that game weekends bring in is through sales tax boosts and the hotel, motel, restaurant tax, Tan said.
Numbers for how much revenue Fayetteville brings in were unavailable, Tan said. Out-of-town Razorback fans have even had to book hotel rooms in Springdale, although not necessarily because Fayetteville hotels are all booked. “Often times, hotel rentals depend on the behavior of local businesses,” Tan said. “Local hotels and motels usually raise their rates during game weekends, so what is usually a room that’s under $100 a night gets hiked up to
$300, and so people go where it’s cheaper.” Hotels in Fayetteville and the surrounding area are generally all booked, especially for conference games, hotel managers said. The Red Roof Inn, on Futrall Drive in Fayetteville and down the street from campus, start contracting rooms for conference games as soon as the year’s football schedule is released, said Nicole Marshall, the manager of the Red Roof Inn. As of Wednesday, the Red Roof Inn still had several rooms available for Friday night, but was totally booked for Saturday, she said. Generally, the rates at the Red Roof Inn are only raised about $50 during game weekends. This weekend, for example, the rates were raised from $59 to $109, Marshall said; and that’s for one of the lower-end hotels in the area. The Extended Stay America hotel on Luvene Avenue in Springdale sells out every home-game weekend, said Revae Gilliam, the assistant general manager. Not only is the hotel sold
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1964 National Championship Controversy Andrew Hutchinson Staff Writer
The 1964 Arkansas Razorback football team capped off an undefeated season with a 10-7 Cotton Bowl victory over Nebraska. With the win, Arkansas finished 11-0 and was the only undefeated team in the country, making them the national champions of college football. Or were they? Going into the season, UA head coach Frank Broyles knew his team would have a shot because of recent rule changes, which allowed for more two-platoon football. This allowed Broyles to play certain players specifically on offense or defense, and not both ways. “The NCAA loosened up the rules,” Broyles said. “We were probably one of three teams in the country with two platoons (an offense and defense). We needed platoon football.” With the new rules in place, Arkansas started the season 4-0, outscoring Oklahoma State, Tulsa, TCU, and Baylor a combined 91-44. In week five, Arkansas traveled to Austin and faced archrival Texas.
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The Longhorns were ranked number one in the AP poll at the time, but this didn’t matter to Broyles. “Playing Texas was the biggest game of the year,” Broyles said. “They were THE team you wanted to beat.” Loyd Phillips was a sophomore defensive lineman on the 1964 team, before going on to be an All-American in 1965 and ’66, while winning the Outland Trophy in 1966. “Before the game, it was very tense, but we still felt confident,” Phillips said. Arkansas pulled off the upset, winning 14-13. The Hogs were aided by senior Ken Hatfield’s 81-yard punt return for a touchdown. “In the Austin newspaper that morning, a sportswriter wrote ‘I guarantee Arkansas will not return a punt this game,’” Hatfield said. “I still remember that. And our guys hustled (on the play), and once I got to the wall, everyone picked up their blocks, and I scored.” Phillips’ only concern following the game was getting back to Fayetteville. “We couldn’t land the planes because the fans and students were on the runway,”
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