Dallas Shirley
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J. Dallas Shirley (b. June 7, 1913 in Washington, D.C.; d. March 1, 1994) was a basketball referee.
Shirley played basketball at George Washington University (GWU), graduating in 1936.
He officiated more than 2000 basketball games in his 33-year career, which ended in 1966. As a college referee he worked in the Southern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, and Mason Dixon Conference. He worked numerous NCAA and NIT tournaments.
He was a member of the first Basketball Association of America (the forerunner to the NBA) officiating crew in 1946. He was the International Association of Approved Basketball Officials president from 1952 to 1953.
He was the chief official at the 1959 Pan American Games. He was the only American chosen to officiate at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
He was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980. He is also a member of the George Washington University Athletic Hall of Fame, the National Federation of State High School Associations Hall of Fame and the Washington Metropolitan Basketball Hall of Fame.
The award given to honor the outstanding senior male athlete at GWU is named in his honor.
