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Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman

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The first shoes with rubber soles were the sneakers by U.S. Rubber, it’s Keds. But Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman were the ones that changed it into a science and a fashion. In 1958, Knight and a miler on the track team shared a dissatisfaction with the clumsiness of running shoes. They formed a company in 1964 to market a lighter and more comfortable shoe designed by Bowerman. In 1968 this company became know as Nike. Now Nike is the biggest manufacturer of athletics shoes internationally.