Ivey Shiver

{{Short description|American football and baseball player (1907–1972)}}

{{Infobox college football player

|image=Chick Shiver (1927) (cropped).png

|image_size=180

|caption=Shiver in 1927

|school=Georgia Bulldogs

|birth_date={{Birth date|1907|1|22}}

|birth_place=Sylvester, Georgia, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|1972|8|31|1907|1|22}}

|death_place=Savannah, Georgia, U.S.

|height_ft=6

|height_in=1

|weight_lb=189

|currentnumber=26

|currentposition=End

|pastschools=Georgia (1927)

|highlights=

First-team All-American (1927)
All-Southern (1927)

}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Ivey Shiver

|image=

|position=Outfielder

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1907|1|22}}

|birth_place=Sylvester, Georgia, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|1972|8|31|1907|1|22}}

|death_place=Savannah, Georgia, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 14

|debutyear=1931

|debutteam=Detroit Tigers

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 13

|finalyear=1934

|finalteam=Cincinnati Reds

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.191

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=2

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=6

|teams=

Detroit Tigers ({{mlby|1931}})
Cincinnati Reds ({{mlby|1934}})

}}

Ivey Merwin Shiver (January 22, 1907 – August 31, 1972), nicknamed "Chick", was an American football and baseball player. He was an end for the Georgia Bulldogs football team in college, and later an outfielder in Major League Baseball.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailycitizen.news/sports/local_sports/shivar-was-a-football-and-baseball-star-at-uga/article_9a9d8ae7-2e04-58fa-89d1-b2c29f6fe9e7.html|title=Shivar was a football and baseball star at UGA|date=15 March 2017 |publisher=}} He played in the major leagues for the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds,[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shiveiv01.shtml "Ivey Shiver Statistics and History"]. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved November 11, 2011. and for several teams in the Minor Leagues.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=shiver001ive|title=Ivey Shiver Minor Leagues Statistics & History - Baseball-Reference.com|website=Baseball-Reference.com}} Shiver was captain of the Georgia "dream and wonder team" of 1927,{{cite web|url=http://www.georgiadogs.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082408aaa.html|title=Team Captains|access-date=2014-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211084631/http://www.georgiadogs.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082408aaa.html|archive-date=2014-12-11|url-status=dead}} selected All-Southern and All-American that same year.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1787&dat=19271127&id=XbUeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IWQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4004,922652|title=Spears Given Highest Vote in Selection|date=November 27, 1927|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune}}{{Cite web | url=http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1927/di1927-12-11.pdf | title=Every Member of Gould's 1927 Team Captain of His Respective Eleven | page=7 | date=1927-12-11 | website=dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu}} He was a renowned punter.{{Cite web | title=Online Athens: Local News, Politics & Sports in Athens, GA | url=http://onlineathens.com/stories/110509/foo_512633039.shtml#.Wf4fo2hSy1s | access-date=2025-01-01 | website=onlineathens.com}} He left baseball and the San Diego Padres after 1936 to coach football in Savannah.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=75ukTD7fhIUC&pg=PA18|title=Ted Williams: A Baseball Life|date=4 November 2017|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0803293083|via=Google Books}} This left a spot for Ted Williams.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f6Z1KdExmIoC&pg=PA99|title=The Kid: Ted Williams in San Diego|first=Bill|last=Nowlin|date=4 November 2017|publisher=Rounder Records|isbn=9781579400941|via=Google Books}} He was the athletic director and head coach at Armstrong Junior College from 1937 to 1941,{{Cite web| url=http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/football/ivy_m_shiver_jr.pdf | title=Ivy M. "Chick" Shiver, Jr. | access-date=2017-11-04 | archive-date=2017-11-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107055311/http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/football/ivy_m_shiver_jr.pdf | url-status=dead}} and won a state title at Savannah High School in 1942, where he coached from 1941 to 1952.{{cite web|url=http://ghsfha.org/w/Ivy_%22Chick%22_Shiver|title=Ivy "Chick" Shiver - GHSFHA|website=ghsfha.org}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}