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Article: J. Dallas Shirley Dies; D.C. Principal, Referee
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 2, 1994
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J. Dallas Shirley, 80, a retired D.C. school principal and one
of the area's most prominent basketball referees and supervisors,
died March 1 at George Washington University. He had pulmonary
fibrosis.
Over 33 years, Mr. Shirley, a Washington native, officiated more
than 2,000 games. In addition to local contests, he was a National
Basketball Association official during the league's first season, in
1946-47, and for the remainder of the 1940s. He also officiated at
the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and was chief official at the 1959
Pan American Games in Chicago.
He also had officiated numerous college games and, as a member
of a rules committee, had helped establish the three-point shot ...