Ernie Quigley
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Ernest Cosmos Quigley (March 22, 1880 – December 10, 1960) was a Canadian-American sports official who became notable both as a basketball referee and as an umpire in Major League Baseball.
Quigley was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, and was raised in Concordia, Kansas. A student of basketball inventor James Naismith at the University of Kansas, after graduating he served as a coach, teacher and athletic director at St. 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 and Amateur Athletic Union games during his 40-year career, and supervised the NCAA Division I Men's Tournament officials from 1940 to 1942. He also refereed the basketball finals between the United States and Canada at the 1936 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 became athletic director at Kansas, serving until 1950.
He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961.
