He played offensive tackle for the New York Giants in the National Football League (NFL) Albert Charles Blozis, known as "Al", was born on January 5, 1919, in Garfield, New Jersey to Lithuanian immigrants.

[2] At Georgetown University, he won AAU and NCAA indoor and outdoor shot titles three years in a row from 1940 to 1942.

In a 1991 news story, The New York Times wrote, "Curiously, the very size that made him so intimidating on the football field kept him out of the military until late 1943, when, after repeated attempts, Blozis finally persuaded the Army to waive its size limit and accept him.

He was first assigned to duty as a physical instructor at Walter Reed General Hospital and then went through officer training at Fort Benning, where he set the army's hand-grenade-throwing record with a toss of 94 yards, 2 feet, 6.5 inches.

[7] The United States Army honored Blozis by naming an athletic center in Frankfurt, Germany after him.