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| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1880-03-22)March 22, 1880 Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Died | December 10, 1960(1960-12-10) (aged 80) Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Kansas |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1900–1901 | Warrensburg Teachers |
| 1903–1911 | St. Mary's (KS) |
| 1918 | Saint Louis |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1944–1950 | Kansas |
| Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1961 (profile) | |
Baseball player Baseball career | |
 Quigley umpiring at the1916 World Series | |
| debut | |
| June 25, 1913 | |
| Last appearance | |
| September 18, 1938 | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| Member of the Canadian | |
 Baseball Hall of Fame | |
| Induction | 2021 |
Ernest Cosmos Quigley (March 22, 1880 – December 10, 1960) was a Canadian-born American sports official who became notable both as abasketballreferee and as anumpire inMajor League Baseball. He also worked as anAmerican football coach and official.
Born in Canada and raised inConcordia, Kansas, Quigley attended college and law school at theUniversity of Kansas. There he played college basketball under the game's inventor,James Naismith. He became the head football coach atKansas Wesleyan University and then the athletic director at the University of Kansas. Quigley refereed college basketball for 40 years and umpired more than 3,000 Major League Baseball games. As a college football official, he worked in several bowl games and served on the Rules Committee of the NCAA for several years.
Quigley died in Kansas in 1960.
Quigley was born inNewcastle, New Brunswick, and was raised inConcordia, Kansas where he was a prominent member of thehigh school football team in the 1890s.[2]
Quigley was a student of basketball inventorJames Naismith at theUniversity of Kansas. He also played football at Kansas from1900 to1901.[3]
After graduating, he served as a coach, teacher andathletic director atSt. Mary's College inSt. Marys, Kansas, from 1903 until 1912, while also attending law school at the University of Kansas.[4]
In 1944, Quigley became theathletic director at the University of Kansas, where he hired coachesGeorge Sauer,Jules V. Sikes, andDick Harp.[5]
Quigley officiated at more than 1,500collegiate andAmateur Athletic Union games during his 40-year career, and supervised theNCAA tournament officials from 1940 to 1942. He also refereed the basketball finals between theUnited States andCanada at the1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, 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 aNational League baseball umpire from1913 to1937, and oversaw sixWorld Series, most notably the notorious1919Black Sox series, as well as those in1916,1921,1924,1927 and1935; he was crew chief for the 1927 Series. On June 1, 1923, he was the home plate umpire for the game in which theNew York Giants, visiting thePhiladelphia Phillies, became the first 20th-century team to score in every inning of a 9-inning game, winning 22–8.[6] He also participated in a1928 baseball tour ofJapan, and later became an NL supervisor of umpires.[7] After a 1933 game, Quigley was found unconscious by partnerGeorge Barr following an electric shock from an exposed wire; he recovered uneventfully.[8] 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.
Quigley also served as an official in major college football contests including theArmy–Navy Game, fiveHarvard–Yale games, theMichigan–Illinois game, threeRose Bowls (1920, 1925, 1927), and theCotton Bowl Classic. He was a member of the NCAA's Rules Committee from 1946 to 1954.
Quigley married Marge Darlington in Concordia. The ceremony was held in the home of the bride.[9]Quigley died at age 80 inLawrence, Kansas and was buried at that city's Mt. Calvary Cemetery.[10]
He was the brother ofLarry Quigley.[11]
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