- Ernie Quigley
Ernest Cosmos Quigley (
March 22 1880 –December 10 1960 ) was a Canadian-American sports official who became notable both as abasketball referee and as an umpire inMajor League Baseball .Quigley was born in
Newcastle, New Brunswick , and was raised inConcordia, Kansas . A student of basketball inventorJames Naismith at theUniversity of Kansas , after graduating he served as a coach, teacher andathletic director atSt. Mary's College, Kansas from 1903 until 1912, while also attending law school at the University of Kansas. Quigley officiated at more than 1,500 collegiate andAmateur Athletic Union games during his 40-year career, and supervised the NCAA tournament officials from 1940 to 1942. He also refereed the basketball finals between the United States and Canada at the 1936 Summer Olympics inBerlin , played outdoors in the rain, in the first Games at which basketball was a medal sport. Rather than using his whistle, the small-statured Quigley often used his high-pitched voice to command attention in supervising play. In 1944 he becameathletic director at Kansas, serving until 1950. He was enshrined in theBasketball Hall of Fame in 1961.Quigley was also a
National League baseball umpire from by|1913 to by|1937, and oversaw sixWorld Series , most notably the notorious 1919 Black Sox series, as well as those in 1916, 1921, 1924, 1927 and 1935; he was crew chief for the 1927 Series. OnJune 1 , by|1923, he was the home plate umpire for the game in which the New York Giants, visiting thePhiladelphia Phillies , became the first 20th-century team to score in every inning of a 9-inning game, winning 22-8. [cite book|last=Dittmar|first=Joseph J.|title=Baseball's Benchmark Boxscores|year=1990|publisher=McFarland & Co.|location=Jefferson, NC|id=ISBN 0-89950-488-4|pages=pp. 32-34] He also participated in a by|1928 baseball tour of Japan, and later became an NL supervisor of umpires. [cite news |first=Frederick G. |last=Lieb |authorlink=Fred Lieb |title=Quigley, Long-Time Umpire and Grid Official, Dies at 81 |work=The Sporting News |page=28 |date=1960-12-21 ] His 3,351 games as an umpire ranked seventh in major league history when he retired; his 1,511 games behind home plate are still the tenth most in history. Quigley Field, the University of Kansas' first baseball stadium, was named after him.He also served as an official in major
college football contests including theArmy-Navy Game , five Harvard-Yale games, the Michigan-Illinois game, three Rose Bowls (1920, 1925, 1927) and the Cotton Bowl, and was a member of the NCAA's Rules Committee from 1946 to 1954. He died at age 80 inLawrence, Kansas , and was buried at that city's Mt. Calvary Cemetery.References
External links
* [http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-ernest-quigley.html Basketball Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/Q/Quigley_Ernie.stm BaseballLibrary.com]
* [http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/individuals/vertical/bios/quigleyerniec.htm Kansas State Historical Society]
* [http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Quigley.Ernie.Obit.html Obituary in "The Sporting News"]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Q/Pquige901.htm Retrosheet]
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