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Today's Tidbit... How Early Football Players Saved Their Soles

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Today's Tidbit... How Early Football Players Saved Their Soles

Timothy P. Brown
May 25, 2022
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Today's Tidbit... How Early Football Players Saved Their Soles

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Before John Riddell invented interchangeable football spikes, the local cobbler saved football players' soles by tacking leather bars underfoot. They called on the cobbler again when the bars wore down, or they wanted to change the spike length based on field conditions.


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