Tambling was the head basketball coach at Central Michigan from 1904 to 1910 and again from 1917 to 1919.

Tambling was also the head of the physiology and physical training department at Central Michigan.

[2] Tambling graduated from Oberlin College.

He resided there for ten years before moving to Cathedral City, California, where he died on May 6, 1958.

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