Barney Traynor
Bernard Philip "Barney" Traynor (November 24, 1894 – August 26, 1980) 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. 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. References Milwaukee Badgers players Michigan State Spartans football coaches Michigan State Spartans men's basketball coaches People from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Players of American football from Wisconsin 1894 births 1980 deaths Sportspeople from the Milwaukee metropolitan area