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.
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.
[3] He was interred at Ivy Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.