Word: cleats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cold, and he's rubbing them between every play. That means he can't coordinate them well, and he'll end up jamming a finger or getting stepped on." True to prediction, Defensive Back Alan Johnson's right hand is raked by a cleat. At halftime, Verbruggen has to treat him for a bruise and deep scrape...
...this is not to say that Potysman will follow in the cleat-marks of Emper, but it's well known that Yale boasts a pair of trucks with sure hands at the ends in John Spagnola and Bob Krytyniak and that all 70 inches of Potysman will have a full day's work ahead of them tomorrow at the Yale Bowl...
Deja vu. What did I tell ya'. The Yanks and the Dodgers face to face, cleat to cleat, just like...
...Namath and other athletes have painfully learned, the human knee was not designed by nature to withstand a twisting action (torque) when the leg is held rigid by a cleated shoe planted firmly in soft ground. To orthopedists nothing is more predictable than this "football knee." Houston's Dr. Bruce Cameron reasoned that while players must have cleats to ensure good traction, they need to be released from the fixed stance when they are hit by a block or tackled. So he designed shoes with a cleat plate that rotates in the middle of the sole. The player...