"[4] Concluding that the wind was circling through the stadium like a whirlpool, Shiverick delayed the snap from center until he felt a reverse current.

He then drove a low, hard kick that was carried by the reverse current over the head of Harvard's safety man, Eddie Mahan.

In 1916, Shiverick returned as Cornell's starting quarterback and led the Big Red to wins over Michigan and Penn.

[10][11] Shiverick was also selected for membership in the Quill and Dagger society and elected captain of the 1917 Cornell football team.

The press reported:"The famous general of the Big Red eleven, who last year beat Harvard with his punting and was the main factor in the defeat this season of Michigan, is to be elected unanimously, it was announced last night.

"[1]Before the 1917 football season began, the United States entered World War I, and he joined the U.S. Army.

[12][13] In the biggest game of the 1917 football season, a game between college football stars serving in the military held at Chicago's Stagg Field on December 1, 1917, Shiverick was the star, scoring eight of Camp Grant's fourteen points on a touchdown and two extra points.

[16] He became known as "a scoring machine," "the strongest punter" in the country and "the greatest individual star since Eddie Mahan.