Barney Traynor

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.

Biography[]

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 1925–27, 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]

References[]

^ 1989-1980 Necrology at Oldest Living Pro Football Players Archived August 23, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Barney Traynor Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
^ https://www.msu.edu/~carillon/

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[Necrology-1] 1989-1980 Necrology at Oldest Living Pro Football Players Archived August 23, 2015, at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Barney Traynor Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.

[3] ttps://www.msu.edu/~carillon/

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