He was a standout athlete at Albany High School and captained the football, basketball, and baseball teams at Syracuse University.
Syracuse went 38–7 during Schwarzer's three seasons on the team and he was retroactively named to the 1918 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans by the Helms Athletic Foundation.
[7] Prior to the 1930 season, the school's graduate manager of athletics announced that Schwarzer would become the team's chief scout and an advisor and Notre Dame captain John B.
[8] After leaving Manhattan, Schwarzer returned to Central New York to manage his family's real estate business.
[9][10] During World War II, he was a member of Madison County's selective service board and was a superintendent at the U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corporation.