PLAYING CAREER
B.C. LIONS  1976-2000

AWARDS AND HONOURS
ALL-CANADIAN KICKER 1979, 1983,1984, 2000
ALL-WESTERN KICKER 1977, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000
DICK SUDERMAN TROPHY 1985, 1994
 
GREY CUP PARTICIPATION  1983, 1985, 1988, 1994, 2000
GREY CUP WINNING TEAMS  1985, 1994, 2000

LUI PASSAGLIA GRADUATED FROM NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE HE PLAYED QUARTERBACK. AT SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, PASSAGLIA PLAYED WIDE RECEIVER AS WELL AS HANDLING THE KICKING CHORES. IN THE 1976 CANADIAN COLLEGE DRAFT, HE WAS SELECTED AS THE FIFTH PICK OVERALL BY THE B.C. LIONS AND SPENT HIS ENTIRE CAREER WITH THE TEAM.

AT THE TIME OF HIS RETIREMENT IN 2000, PASSAGLIA HELD THE FOLLOWING RECORDS: MOST REGULAR SEASONS PLAYED WITH 25, MOST REGULAR SEASON GAME PLAYED WITH 408, AND MOST POINTS SCORED IN REGULAR PLAY WITH 3,991 POINTS.  IN 1987, HE WAS THE FIRST PLAYER TO SCORE OVER 200 POINTS IN A SEASON WHEN HE SCORED 214. 

HE ALSO HELD THE CFL RECORDS FOR MOST CONVERTS WITH 1,014 (560 CONSECUTIVE), MOST FIELD GOALS WITH 875, BEST FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE IN A SEASON AT 90.9%), AND MOST SINGLE POINTS WITH 309. HE WAS THE ALL-TIME PUNT LEADER WITH 3,142 PUNTS FOR 133,826 YARDS, WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE IN A SEASON OF 50.2 YARDS IN 1983. IN THE PLAYOFFS, PASSAGLIA HELD THE RECORD FOR MOST POINTS WITH 210 AND TIED FOR MOST FIELD GOALS WITH 48 AND THE LONGEST PUNT OF 89 YARDS.

LUI PASSAGLIA WAS NAMED ALL-WESTERN NINE TIMES AND ALL-CANADIAN FOUR TIMES.  HE IS A MEMBER OF THE BC SPORTS HALL OF FAME.

INDUCTED 2004 - PLAYER

Class of 2004 Larry Highbaugh, Cal Murphy, Dan Yochum, Ben Zambiasi