H. W. Ambruster

{{Short description|American football coach, chemical engineer, actor, and lecturer}}

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| name = H. W. Armbruster

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| birth_date = 1879

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| death_date = {{Death date|1961|1|10}} (aged 82)

| death_place = Fanwood, New Jersey, U.S.

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| coach_years1 = 1895

| coach_team1 = Rutgers

| overall_record = 3–4

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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.{{cite web|title=H.W. Ambruster Records by Year|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=42 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809050858/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=42 |archivedate= August 9, 2016 |via= Wayback Machine}} Armbruster also played tennis and competed in the 1899 Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Championships.{{cite web|title=H. W. Armbruster|publisher=Tennis Archives|url=http://www.tennisarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=16009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204000347/http://www.tennisarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=16009|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2013}}

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.{{cite news |author= |title=Howard Watson Ambruster, Coach, Engineer, Lecturer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34609666/the_couriernews/ |newspaper=Courier News |location=Bridgewater, New Jersey |date=January 11, 1961 |page=40 |access-date=August 6, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He was interred at Ivy Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.{{cite book |last1=Spencer |first1=Thomas E. |title=Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, With Listings of Many Prominent People Who Were Cremated |date=1998 |publisher=Clearfield Company, Inc. |location=Baltimore, Maryland |isbn=0-8063-4823-2 |page=375 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLWao2lIGTEC&pg=PA375 |access-date=July 3, 2022}}