Ben Zambiasi - Class of 2019 Inductee
Channel: Georgia Sports Hall of Fame
Date: 2019-03-06

Ben Zambiasi led Mt. de Sales Academy (Macon) to three state high school football championships. He went to play at the University of Georgia, where he has a 1976 All-American and a two-time All-SEC Selection. His 467 career tackles are still a UGA record, more than forty years after his last game in Athens. 

He played 10 seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He won the CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award in 1979 and was an all-star eight times. He won a Grey Cup with Hamilton in 1986. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

Zambiasi is also a member of UGA's all-century team and is also in the Ring of Honor. In 2014, he was inducted into the Georgia-Florida game Hall of Fame. And on February 23, 2019, Zambiasi was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame.