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Cornell University Athletics

2007 General Roster

Fritz Shiverick

Biography

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[apos]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.