Young Hog callers: Students from Monitor Elementary in Springdale call the Hogs on Tuesday while touring the football locker room at the Broyles Center on the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville campus. The students have learned the University's fight song and regularly call the Hogs during their morning meetings. DAN HALE / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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