Ernie Quigley

Ernest C. Quigley

Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball
Biographical details
Born	(1880-03-22)March 22, 1880 Newcastle, New Brunswick
Died	December 10, 1960(1960-12-10) (aged 80) St. Marys, Kansas
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1900–1901	Warrensburg Teachers
1918	Saint Louis
1919	Kansas Wesleyan
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1944–1950	Kansas
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1961 (profile)

Ernest Cosmos Quigley (March 22, 1880 – December 10, 1960) was a Canadian-born American sports official who became notable both as a basketball referee and as an umpire in Major League Baseball. He also worked as an American football coach and official.

Born in Canada and raised in Concordia, Kansas, Quigley attended college and law school at the University of Kansas. There he played college basketball under the game's inventor, James Naismith. He became the head football coach at Kansas 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 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.

Quigley was 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 in St. Marys, Kansas from 1903 until 1912, while also attending law school at the University of Kansas.

Quigley was the seventh head football coach for the Kansas Wesleyan University Coyotes located in Salina, Kansas and he held that position for the 1919 season, leading the team for only one game. The team lost its one-game on November 22, 1919 against Fort Hays State University by a score of 26 to 0.

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