Square toed kicking shoe?

Are these legal in high school?

[HLin NC]

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

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by big jake

Are these legal in high school?

Why wouldn't they be?

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]

Nope, not illegal.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by big jake

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]

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]

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

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

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. Voilà! 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.