In 1951-1952, he entered Cardinal Mindszenty and played junior varsity basketball for that season before moving to the varsity to become a three-year performer at point guard.
Football was started in 1952 and he earned two varsity letters while playing halfback and linebacker.
After graduating from Cardinal Mindszenty in 1955, Muscato entered Chaffey College in Alta Loma, California, that fall and was an all-star on the freshman basketball team and team doubles handball champion.
He received a degree in journalism and physical education there and later a degree in social science liberal studies and a certificate for social studies at Albany State.
Muscato coached the football team at Cardinal Mindszenty during two different stretches with the first being an assistant coach as either an offensive or defensive coordinator from 1956-1961. During that time his best teams were 8-0 in 1958 and 7-1 in 1959.
After a two-year absence, Muscato returned to the football wars as the head coach and began a period of seven straight winning seasons from 1964-1970 with the top clubs being 6-0-2 in 1964, 6-2 in 1966 and 7-1 in 1968. Six of those teams won Catholic League championships and overall his teams won eight titles. His football coaching continued all the way to 1978 season and that 1978-79 school year was the final one for the school.
At the same time he was assistant coach for football, Muscato assisted such successful basketball teams as 15-4 in 1956-1957, 13-9 in 1957-1958, 17-3 in 1959-1960 and 14-6 in 1961-1962.
He also helped out in baseball with all the teams being over or near .500 from 1957-1962 with the best being 10-7 in 1960.
Muscato became the varsity basketball and baseball coach in 1964-1965 and during that 15-year span through 1978-1979 he enjoyed nine winning basketball seasons and six winning baseball campaigns. Championships were won in basketball in 1964-1965 (12-5), 1965-1966 (17-2), 1974-1975 (15-6) and 1975-1976 (16-5) while in baseball crowns were won in 1967-1968 (14-4) and 1968-1969 (15-3) plus 1973-1974 (17-3).
He was the athletic director when the baseball team was 15-5 in 1974-1975, 16-5 in 1975-1976 and 19-5 in 1976-1977 with titles gained in each of those years.
After Cardinal Mindszenty closed, Muscato moved onto Bishop Turner in Buffalo where he was athletic director and chairman of physical education. He coached basketball to winning seasons in all three years with titles in 1980-1981 (16-8) and 1981-1982 (15-8). He also coached football there with a 5-3 championship in 1980.
Muscato was the linebacking and special teams coach at Buffalo State from 1982-1984 and was defensive coordinator at Dunkirk High School for three years (1986,1988,1989) and helped out with the Marauders' basketball teams that were 62-22 from 1985-1989 with three titles. Also he coached the defensive backs at Mercyhurst College in Erie in 1987.
From 1956-1974, Muscato played in the Dunkirk City Basketball A & B Leagues in Dunkirk and was his team's high scorer three times and played on four title-winning teams in racking up 180 victories.
In softball, he had a lifetime batting average of .300 while performing in the City Softball League, where he played every position except catcher and led his team to 170 wins.
Muscato was also physical education instructor at St. Mary's Academy in Dunkirk for grades 4 to 8 for the year of 1961-1962. From 1962-1964, he was recreation and physical education director at JN Adam Development Center for mentally and physically handicapped in Perrysburg.
Basketball officiating played a major part of Muscato's life from 1962-1984 as he was a certified member of Basketball Officials IAABO Board 39 from Chautauqua County. He additionally was a Western New York Football Official from the Chautauqua County Chapter from 1964-1978. He was an umpire for softball and baseball games in Chautauqua County.
Muscato sent more than 60 student-athletes to college on full or partial athletic scholarships. Among that delegation was Tom Krystofiak,the Dunkirk boys junior varsity basketball coach, who played at Canisius College after an outstanding career at Mindszenty.
Volunteer work had Muscato visiting the elderly and handicapped people regularly while he was involved in the Knights of Columbus charity activities and the Elks Club youth athletic activities.
