Vic Armbruster

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Vic Armbruster

Australian national rugby league team
Personal information
Full name	Vic Armbruster
Date of birth	born 1902
Place of birth	Meerschaum Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1921–1923 1924–1925 1926–1928 1929–1930 1931 1931–1935	Mullumbimby Valleys, Toowoomba Grammars, Brisbane Valleys, Brisbane Bundaberg Rochdale Hornets
Representative teams
1922 1924–1931 1924–1930	New South Wales Queensland Australia	1 35 8
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Vic Armbruster (born 1902 in Meerschaum Vale, New South Wales) was an Australian rugby league player for New South Wales, Queensland and Australia. He primarily played in the second-row.

Armbuster's grade career commenced in the country at Mullumbimby, New South Wales from where he gained state selection for New South Wales in 1922. Along with his future Kangaroo captain Tom Gorman and state/national teammate Herb Steinohrt, Armbruster was a member of the 1924-25 world class Toowoomba side that beat all-comers including Sydney premiers Souths, Brisbane, Ipswich and representative sides including New South Wales, Victoria, Great Britain and New Zealand. While playing with Toowoomba Armbruster first gained national selection appearing in the 2nd and 3rd tests of the 1924 domestic Ashes series against Great Britain.

He played with the Grammars club in Brisbane and then Valleys and was a regular representative in the Queensland state side making 35 appearances up till 1931. He was selected for the 1929 Kangaroo tour and played in three Tests and sixteen minor representative tour games.

In February 2008, Armbruster was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908-2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.^[1][2]

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