PLAYING CAREER
HAMILTON TIGER-CATS  1978-1987
TORONTO ARGONAUTS 1988

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-CANADIAN LINEBACKER  1978, 1979, 1980,1981, 1982, 1985
ALL-EASTERN LINEBACKER 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986
SCHENLEY MOST OUTSTANDING DEFENSIVE PLAYER 1979
JAMES P. MCCAFFREY TROPHY 1979, 1981
FRANK GIBSON TROPHY 1978

GREY CUP PARTICIPATION 1980, 1984,1985, 1986
GREY CUP WINNING TEAM 1986

BEN ZAMBIASI WAS BORN IN VALDOSTA, GEORGIA ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1956. ZAMBIASI PLAYED COLLEGE FOOTBALL WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, WHERE HE WAS SELECTED AS A SOUTH EASTERN CONFERNCE ALL-STAR IN 1976. IN 1978, HE WAS THE TENTH ROUND CHOICE OF THE CHICAGO BEARS OF THE NFL IN THE AMERICAN COLLEGE DRAFT.  MIDWAY THROUGH THE 1978 SEASON HE JOINED THE HAMILTON TIGER-CATS AS A LINEBACKER.

ZAMBIASI’S FIRST SEASON WITH THE TIGER-CATS WAS EXCEPTIONAL. HE WAS NAMED THE MOST OUTSTANDING ROOKIE IN THE EASTERN DIVISION IN 1978, AND RECEIVED ALL- EASTERN AND ALL-CANADIAN HONOURS THROUGHOUT HIS PLAYING CAREER. IN 1979, HE WON THE SCHENLEY AWARD FOR THE MOST OUTSTANDING DEFENSIVE PLAYER IN THE CFL. ZAMBIASI PLAYED IN FOUR GREY CUP GAMES AND WAS ON THE WINNING TEAM IN 1986.

IN 1988, ZAMBIASI JOINED THE TORONTO ARGONAUTS AND PLAYED HIS FINAL SEASON OF AN ELEVEN-YEAR CAREER IN THE CFL.  BEN ZAMBIASI HAS BEEN NAMED TO THE TIGER-CATS WALK OF FAME, THE TIGER-CATS WALL OF HONOUR, AND A MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA’S TEAM OF THE CENTURY. 

INDUCTED 2004 - PLAYER

Class of 2004 Larry Highbaugh, Cal Murphy, Lui Passaglia, Dan Yochum