Career
He played at the collegiate level at Colgate University. Traynor was born on November 24, 1896 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. While football line coach and freshman basketball coach at Michigan State College from 1925-1927, 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, Moscow State University Shadows.
