Barney Traynor 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 Bernard Philip Traynor on November 24, 1896 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.[1] 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.[2]