Howard Watson Ambruster (1879 – January 10, 1961) was an American football coach, chemical engineer, actor, and lecturer. He was the head football coach at Rutgers University for one season, in 1895, compiling a record of 3–4. Armbruster also played tennis and competed in the 1899 Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Championships.
Ambruster attended Germantown Academy. He entered the University of Pennsylvania with class of 1899, but left the school before graduating to coach football at Rutgers. A longtime resident of Westfield, New Jersey, he moved to Fanwood, New Jersey in 1949, and died at his home there at the age of 82, on January 10, 1961. He was interred at Ivy Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
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1879 births
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20th-century American engineers
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Burials at Ivy Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia) Rutgers Scarlet Knights football coaches Germantown Academy alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni People from Fanwood, New Jersey People from Westfield, New Jersey