Elverson moved on to the University of Pennsylvania, where he played college football at the quarterback and halfback positions for the Penn Quakers from 1934 to 1936 and was captain of the 1936 team that compiled a 7–1 record and was ranked No.
[4] His career at Swarthmore was interrupted by service as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy during World War II from 1942 to 1945.
[1] During the war, he coached the Atlantic City Naval Air Station football team in 1943 and 1944.
Elverson served as the coach of Swarthmore's track team from 1951 to 1978 and for several years as the school's athletic director.
[1] Elverson died from congestive heart failure, on May 1, 1997, at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.