FAYETTEVILLE — December high school graduates at Arkansas as January enrollees ahead of their freshman football class have a U.S. senator’s empathy.
For before he represented (and last November was reelected) to represent Arkansas in the U.S. Senate and 10 years previously represented Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boozman was a Razorback. Boozman was an early-bird Razorback, arriving in January while the rest of his 1969 freshman class was still finishing high school.
“It was kind of the first time anybody had done it,” Boozman said.
At least during his era.
An outstanding but injury-plagued football tenure at Fort Smith Northside timed Boozman to be eligible to enroll at UA in January.