Awards & Recognition

1.
Canadian Who is Who (1975)
2.
Honour Award, Canadian Assoc. for Health, Phys. Educ. & Rec. (1975)
3.
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), honoris causa, University of Windsor (1975)
4.
Who is Who in the Midwest (1976)
5.
Dictionary of International Biography (1978)
6.
Alliance Scholar-of-the-Year, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (1978)
7.
Who is Who in America (1979)
8.
Distinguished Service Award, Intern. Relations Council, AAHPERD(1979)
9.
Lansdowne Visiting Scholar, University of Victoria, Brit. Col.(1980)
10.
Honor Award, Amer. Alliance for HPERD (1981)
11.
Who is Who in the World (1982)
12.
Presented the 3rd Dudley Allen Sargent Memorial Lecture to the National Assoc. for Physical Education in Higher Education (1983)
13.
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Phi Epsilon Kappa Fraternity Lecture Series, Central Michigan State University (1984)
14.
Fellow Award, Can. Assoc. for Health, Phys. Educ. & Rec. (1986)
15.
Special Presidential Citation, Canadian Association for HPER (1986)
16.
Outstanding Teacher Award, Physical Education Students' Council, The University of Western Ontario 1987)
17.
North American Society for Sport Management created the Annual Earle Zeigler Lecture (1988)
18.
Distinguished Service Award, International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport (1988)
19.
Hetherington Award, American Academy of Physical Education (1989)
20.
The title "Sport Historian Emeritus" conferred by the North American Society for Sport History (1989)
21.
The Earle Zeigler Scholarship established by the Faculty of Physical Education, The Univ. of Western Ontario (1989)
22.
The Luther Halsey Gulick Medal of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (1990)
23.
The Annual Earle Zeigler Lecture established by Faculty of Physical Education (now Kinesiology), The Univ. of Western Ontario (1990)
24.
Inducted into Wrestling Wall of Fame, The University of Western Ontario (1991)
25.
The Oberteuffer Memorial Distinguished Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (1993)
26.
Recognized as Canadian Sport History Scholar (one of six) at Canadian Symposium on History of Sport, Calgary, AB (1994)
27.
Selected as the first Human Movement Sciences & Education Distinguished Scholar, University of Memphis, TN (1994)
28.
Listed in The International Who's Who in Sport PedagogyTheory and Research (1994)
29.
Faculty of Kinesiology, The Univ, of Western Ontario voted to name the annually awarded Honors B.A. Gold Medal
"The Dr. Earle F. Zeigler Medal." (1994)
30.
Inducted into The University of Western Ontario "W" Club Hall of Fame (Builder Category) (1995)
31.
Who is Who in American Education (1996)
32.
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.), honoris causa, University of Lethbridge,1997.
33.
Inducted by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,Recreation,and Dance as charter member of newly created honorary North American Society for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance Professionals, 2000
34.
Inducted into The Univ. of Western Ontario Swimming Wall of Honor,2000
35.
Inducted by the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance as a charter member of the newly created honorary North American Society for Health, Physical Education. Recreation, Sport and Dance Professionals, 2001.
36.
The International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport created the Dr. Earle F. Zeigler Scholarly Article Award in its Journal of Sport Studies, 2001
37.
Doctor of Laws and Letters degree (LL.D.), The University of Western Ontario, 2006.
38.
Contribs. to Sport History Award, North American Society for Sport History, 2008.

Note: In the 1950s, Dr.Earle F.Zeigler received the Award of Merit from the Ontario Recreation Association (1956), an Honorary Fellowship from the Society of Municipal Recreation Directors of Ontario (1956), and the Award of Merit, American Red Cross Society, Ann Arbor, MI (1959).