Barney Traynor
Introduction '''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 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''.
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