14 Facts About Ernie Quigley

Ernest Cosmos Quigley was a Canadian-born American sports official who became notable both as a basketball referee and as an umpire in Major League Baseball.

Ernie Quigley became the head football coach at Kansas Wesleyan University and then the athletic director at the University of Kansas.

Ernie Quigley refereed college basketball for 40 years and umpired more than 3,000 Major League Baseball games.

Ernie Quigley was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, and was raised in Concordia, Kansas where he was a prominent member of the high school football team in the 1890s.

Ernie Quigley was a student of basketball inventor James Naismith at the University of Kansas.

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Ernie Quigley officiated at more than 1,500 collegiate and Amateur Athletic Union games during his 40-year career, and supervised the NCAA tournament officials from 1940 to 1942.

Ernie Quigley 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 Ernie Quigley often used his high-pitched voice to command attention in supervising play.

Ernie Quigley was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961.

Ernie Quigley was a National League baseball umpire from 1913 to 1937, and oversaw six World 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.

Ernie Quigley participated in a 1928 baseball tour of Japan, and later became an NL supervisor of umpires.

Ernie Quigley served as an official in major college football contests including the Army–Navy Game, five Harvard–Yale games, the Michigan–Illinois game, three Rose Bowls, and the Cotton Bowl Classic.

Ernie Quigley was a member of the NCAA's Rules Committee from 1946 to 1954.

Ernie Quigley died at age 80 in Lawrence, Kansas and was buried at that city's Mt.