It's an unforgettable picture that has been etched in history and will remain a part of Razorback football. The entire football team is posed against a gray concrete wall with hands in the air, extending their index fingers. A burly lineman with No. 70 stitched on his jersey stands in the middle of the picture with his left hand extended and grasping a national champion sign with his right hand. Entering the fall of 1964, Frank Broyles, then Arkansas head football coach, knew he had a special team.
Players still are able to describe the smells, sounds and emotions of that game.
But, a former defensive tackle for the Razorbacks can tell the feeling walking down the tunnel for the game and up the tunnel afterward. In his late 50s, Lloyd Phillips sat at a desk dressed in a coat and tie. He has come a long way from his rough and tough days as an Arkansas defensive lineman that set numerous records, to Rogers High School, where he's been vice principal since 1974. Working with a student body of more than 2,000, Phillips is busier than he has been since taking the job. He's adjusted throughout the years and seen the good, the bad and the ugly.