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Shiverick HOF

Francis (Fritz) Shiverick

  • Class
    1918
  • Induction
    1987
  • Sport(s)
    Football
He was the outstanding kicker and ground-gaining halfback of the unbeaten (9-0) 1915 National Champion football team which gave Harvard its first defeat since 1911. The next season he kicked the field goal which won the famous Michigan game, 23-20. He left school in 1917 to enlist in the army and served in France as a captain in the Provost Marshal General's department. He returned to Cornell in 1919, and as captain of the team, he personally scored all nine points in the Oberlin victory and kicked the field goal which netted a 3-0 victory over Williams. He was captain for the freshman track team in 1914-15. He was co-owner of the Tobey Furniture Company in Chicago, Ill., where he died in 1936.
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