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Coordinator of Football Officials Jim Maconaghy


Jim Maconaghy, who has more than two decades of on-field experience as a collegiate referee, adds his new duties to those as the coordinator of officials for the Atlantic 10 Football Conference, which he has done since he retired from officiating in 2000.

Maconaghy, who lives in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., worked as a referee in all three Leagues, as well as the Yankee Conference and the Big East Conference, from 1986 to 2000. Prior to that, he was a referee on the NCAA Division II and III levels for seven seasons, beginning in 1979. He worked collegiate playoff games nearly every year from 1985 through 2000, including five NCAA playoff contests. Other top games in his career include the 1997 Army-Navy game, the 1999 Eddie Robinson Football Classic (Kansas vs. Notre Dame) and the Harvard-Yale game (twice).

Maconaghy has been a clinician on the scholastic and collegiate level since 1986. In addition to serving as the A-10 coordinator of officials since 2000, he has served as the Game Day Coach/Quarterback Coordinator for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles since 1994. He was named the National Football Foundation “Collegiate Official of the Year” in 1996 and inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.

In addition to assigning officials for home games for all Ivy League and Patriot League teams, Maconaghy will coordinate clinics to educate officials and coaches on the intracieies of collegiate officiating, select the top officials for I-AA football assignments as well as work with the coaches and institutions to evaluate the game performances on a weekly basis.