He served as the head football coach at the State Teachers College at Shippensburg—now known as Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania—from 1947 to 1954, compiling a record of 45–16–3 and leading the Shippensburg Red Raiders football program to consecutive perfect seasons in 1952 and 1953.
Rambo earned a master's degree in health and physical education from Columbia University in 1935.
His track squad won the Bergen Country Interscholastic League championship in 1935.
[2] During World War II, Rambo served as an officer in the United States Navy with the Air Corps Physical Training V-5 Program headed by Tom Hamilton.
His teams won 20 consecutive games between 1951 and 1954, including back-to-back perfect seasons in 1952 and 1953.