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[edit]
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]
References[edit]
- ^ 1989-1980 Necrology at Oldest Living Pro Football Players Archived August 23, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Barney Traynor Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
- ^ "Beaumont Tower Carillon". Michigan State University. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012.
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