Skippy Stivers

Skippy Stivers
Idaho Vandals
Position Quarterback
Career history
College Idaho (1922–1924)
Career highlights and awards
  • All-PCC (1924)
  • third-team All-American (1924)

Vernon "Skippy" Stivers was a college football and baseball player. Stiver played at quarterback for the Idaho Vandals football team, and starred throughout the 1924 season, despite two dislocated vertebrae in his neck.[1][2]

References

  1. "Idaho Quarter, Star of West, Continued Playing After Dislocating Neck". The Lewiston Daily Sun. December 3, 1924.
  2. "Played Rugby With Dislocated Neck". The Montreal Gazette. December 3, 1924.


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