Traynor Named to Academic All-District I Team

HANOVER, N.H. — The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced its Academic All-District Football Teams this afternoon, and Dartmouth linebacker Jack Traynor was among the players chosen in District I. The Big Green have had at least one player chosen to the team in each of the last dozen seasons.

Traynor, a fifth-year senior majoring in engineering with a 3.68 GPA, has starred for the Dartmouth defense for the past three seasons. A two-time unanimous All-Ivy League First Team linebacker, Traynor is just the 13th player in 138 seasons of Big Green football to serve as a captain for the team for more than one season. And he has the numbers to back up his status.

The native of Lake Forest, Illinois, leads the Green and ranks second in the Ivy League with 59 tackles. Traynor has recovered two fumbles and picked off a pair of passes — returning one of each for a touchdown — broken up two passes and had 4.5 tackles for a loss, including an assisted sack. Three times he has recorded 10 or more tackles in a game this season, including a season-high 13 in a crucial 9-6 win at Harvard, the first win in Cambridge for the Big Green in 16 years.

For his career, Traynor has 254 tackles (14th all-time at Dartmouth and the most in over a decade), 16 for a loss with 1.5 sacks, three interceptions, eight pass breakups, three fumble recoveries and two forced fumbles. He has twice been named to the Academic All-Ivy League Team, and twice to the FCS Athletics Directors Association Academic All-Star Team. He will now go on the ballot for Academic All-America honors, which will be announced in early December.

Notes: Of the 27 players that were named to the District I team, 17 came from the Ivy League … last year, linebacker David Emanuels '19 was named to the Academic All-America Second Team, the first Big Green player to earn the honor in five years.

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