Al Maglisceau was born May 21, 1904, in Pittsburgh, PA. After graduating in 1923 from Parnassus High School in New Kensington, Al played football at Geneva College from 1924 through 1927, lettering all four years as an offensive and defensive tackle and making the All-Conference Team in 1925.

In the late 1920s, the Geneva Covenanters football team was celebrated for playing some of the best teams in college football and took pride in their challenging schedule. In 1926, Al played with fellow Beaver County Sports Hall of Famers Mack Flenniken and Ernie Meyer on the Geneva football team, along with their legendary quarterback Cal Hubbard, in the team's 16-7 historic upset of a powerful Harvard team.

The next year, Al was named captain of the Covenanters football team. The Eastern Collegiate Football Independent Conference had twenty teams, and Geneva was ranked first, ahead of such schools as Army, Pittsburgh, Yale, Princeton, Villanova, and Penn State. The 1927 Geneva Covenanters, led by Beaver County Sports Hall of Famer Bo McMillin in his third and final year as head coach, compiled an overall record of 8-0-1. In conference play, the team went 4-0 winning the Tri-State Champions title. A tie against Bucknell University kept the Covenanters from a perfect season that year.

Years before professional football arrived in Philadelphia and the present-day Eagles organization was established, a recreational team named the Frankford Yellow Jackets, founded in 1899, was organized out of the city's Frankford neighborhood. The team would attract the interest of many athletes, including Al. In 1929, Al would sign as a lineman for the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the National Football League, finishing third place with a record of 10-4-5. Al would play in five games for the Yellow Jackets and start in two games.

Following his professional football career, Al taught history and coached at high schools in Youngstown, PA (1931-1934) and Port Allegheny, PA (1934-1942). Al then moved to New York, where he taught and coached football and track at North Tonawanda High School and, at the time of his retirement from coaching in 1958, was the winningest track coach in North Tonawanda High School history. Overall, Al coached for 27 years (1931-1958) and taught for 39 years (1931-1970).

In 2021, Al received the North Tonawanda Football Hall of Fame's Bud Henry Award for exemplary off-the-field contributions to the North Tonawanda football program. Al was honored in 2003 by Geneva College as one of the top 100 football players at Geneva from 1890-1940, and Al was inducted into the Geneva College Athletics Hall of Fame as part of its 2020 Legacy Hall of Fame Class.

Albert "Al" Samuel Maglisceau died November 5, 1985, at age 81, in Sun City Center, FL.