Barney Traynor | |
Birth Date: | 24 November 1894 |
Birth Place: | Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, USA |
College: | Colgate University |
Position: | Center |
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Pfr: | TrayBa20 |
Bernard Philip "Barney" Traynor (November 24, 1894 - August 26, 1980)[1] was a player in the National Football League for the Milwaukee Badgers in 1925 as a center. He played at the collegiate level at Colgate University.
Traynor was born on November 24, 1896, in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.[2] While football line coach and freshman basketball coach at Michigan State College from 1925 to 1927, Traynor wrote a lyric to music by Gaetano Donizetti, the Sextet from his opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, which is now the Michigan State University alma mater, MSU Shadows.[3]