Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 314, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1920 — FOOTBALL SHOE HAS HINGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOOTBALL SHOE HAS HINGES

Ankle Support Devised by Chicago Firm Minimizes Chances of Misstep by Hats-Back. At the quarter-back’s signal for a run around right end, the half-back sets his shoe-calks into the earth and waits for the ball to be snapped back. But a husky guard on the opposing team breaks through, the quarter fumbles and there is a wild scramble. The half-back swings in his tracks and dives into the middle of the struggling players. A moment later the referee’s whistle sounds, the human omelet is unscrambled, and the halfback emerges with the ball. A misstep in making the lightninglike change of direction might have

a put the half-back out of the game. It Is to minimize such mischance that a Chicago firm has turned out a football shoe with double-hinged ankle support. The Shoe combines flexibility with perfect ankle support—-popu-lar Science Monthly.

Hinges Give It a Freedom of Movement Impossible in a Rigid Shoe.