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big jake Fri Jun 22, 2012 06:56pm

Square toed kicking shoe?
 
Are these legal in high school?

HLin NC Fri Jun 22, 2012 09:15pm

Yeah but are there any straight ahead kickers? Only company I know that manufactured them was Spotbilt and they are out of business.

BktBallRef Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:07pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by big jake (Post 847058)
Are these legal in high school?

Why wouldn't they be?

big jake Sat Jun 23, 2012 02:24pm

I have not seen any for years and someone asked me the question. I thought they outlawed them several years ago as illegal equipment?

johnnyg08 Sat Jun 23, 2012 02:27pm

Nope, not illegal.

Robert Goodman Sat Jun 23, 2012 09:32pm

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Originally Posted by big jake (Post 847114)
I have not seen any for years and someone asked me the question. I thought they outlawed them several years ago as illegal equipment?

Not the shoes, but at least one code outlawed a clip-on to adapt a regular shoe to square off its toe. It was thought to be dangerous if it came loose.

HLin NC Sun Jun 24, 2012 09:06am

Back in the mid-80's, when I worked in the sporting goods trade, there was an outfit in Chattanooga that sold a "kicking strap". It was made of nylon webbing and had Velcro. In the middle of it was a metal grommet and hole that hooked over the toe cleat. You secured the strap around the ankle and pulled the toe of your cleat back. I had a classmate who actually used it. We were in a rural, mountain community and soccer had yet to arrive to our area.

stevestod Mon Jun 25, 2012 12:53pm

I kicked with a square toed shoe in high school; 1966-1970. George Blanda was the man then.

parepat Mon Jun 25, 2012 01:32pm

A buddy of mine held the record in Ohio for many years for the longest field goal. 54 yards using the Spot Bilt kicking shoe.

Tom.OH Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:34pm

We worked a scrimmage game last year and one team , Trotwood Madison (end of the season division 2 state champs) had a straight on kicker. I had not seen one in years.

Steven Tyler Tue Jun 26, 2012 07:04am

Quote:

Originally Posted by HLin NC (Post 847150)
Back in the mid-80's, when I worked in the sporting goods trade, there was an outfit in Chattanooga that sold a "kicking strap". It was made of nylon webbing and had Velcro. In the middle of it was a metal grommet and hole that hooked over the toe cleat. You secured the strap around the ankle and pulled the toe of your cleat back. I had a classmate who actually used it. We were in a rural, mountain community and soccer had yet to arrive to our area.

They stole my invention. I would take a shoestring, and tie a little loop in it. Then I hooked the loop of the shoestring on a front cleat. Next I tied the shoestring around my ankle. Voilą! Instant kicking shoe.

I could never wear the cleats with the heavy sole. I was glad when they introduced the new sole made of a hard plastic. Much more lightweight.

BTW-I bet it was Riddell that made the square toed kicking shoe.

SWFLguy Tue Jun 26, 2012 05:38pm

I have seen the square toe shoe years ago and also kickers tying up their shoe to keep their toe bent. My old high school had an Italian soccer player kick footballs soccer style before I saw Pete Gogolak. You want another old school? My college team, University of Maine, had a guy who did drop kicks for PATs and FGs. I never saw one in 32 years of high school officiating.


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