Break-away football cleats have been patented by a lawyer and sports fan.

It may be a long walk from fashionable women's shoes to muddy football cleats, but Mr. Weaver took steps to ease the transition.

The Eskimos, using standard football cleats, could not find traction on the field.

So he called a guy at Magnus, a company that made football cleats.

The one still missing contained, among other things, his football cleats.

Young showed up for his first 49ers practice without his football cleats.

When one was provided, he sat down in the visitors tunnel and shined his football cleats with the yellow cloth.

To adjust to the conditions, the Giants opted to wear sneakers instead of traditional football cleats.

Technology continued to improve in the coming decades, and by the 1890s studs are first used to make football cleats.