:Bill Ordway
{{short description|American football coach}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Bill Ordway
| image = Bill Ordway.png
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|5|8}}
| birth_place = Mandan, North Dakota, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|9|7|1917|5|8}}
| death_place = Arlington, Texas, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1936–1938
| player_team2 = North Dakota
| player_years3 = 1946
| player_team3 = Winnipeg Blue Bombers
| player_positions = Fullback
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1949–1950
| coach_team2 = Jamestown
| coach_sport3 = Basketball
| coach_years4 = 1954–1961
| coach_team4 = Juneau-Douglas HS
| coach_years5 = 1961–1965
| coach_team5 = Alaska
| coach_years6 = 1968–1969
| coach_team6 = Glassboro State
| coach_sport7 = Baseball
| coach_years8 = 1966–1967
| coach_team8 = Lewis–Clark State
| overall_record = 5–11 (college football)
26–51 (college basketball)
26–21 (college baseball)
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}}
Allan William Ordway (May 8, 1917 – September 7, 1999) was an American gridiron football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Jamestown College—now known as the University of Jamestown—in Jamestown, North Dakota from 1949 to 1950 seasons, compiling a record of 5–11.{{Cite web|last=DeLassus|first=David|title=Jamestown College Coaching Records|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/naia/dac10/jamestown/coaching_records.php|access-date=October 28, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730162222/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/naia/dac10/jamestown/coaching_records.php|archive-date=July 30, 2012}}
Ordway played football for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL) in the early 1940s.{{Cite web |url=http://juneauempire.com/stories/091599/Spo_ordway.html |title=Juneau coaching legend passes on | Juneau Empire - Alaska's Capital City Online Newspaper |access-date=March 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042107/http://juneauempire.com/stories/091599/Spo_ordway.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }}
He died of a rare lung disease, pseudomonas, in 1999. He had been in declining health in the recent years leading up to his death. He was cremated with his ashes scattered at a park.
Head coaching record
=College football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Jamestown Jimmies
| conf = North Dakota Intercollegiate Conference
| startyear = 1949
| endyear = 1950
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1949
| name = Jamestown
| overall = 3–5
| conference = 3–2
| confstanding = T—4th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1950
| name = Jamestown
| overall = 2–6
| conference = 2–4
| confstanding = 6th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Jamestown
| overall = 5–11
| confrecord = 5–6
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 5–11
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}
References
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{{Jamestown Jimmies football coach navbox}}
{{Rowan Profs men's basketball coach navbox}}
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Category:American football fullbacks
Category:Basketball coaches from North Dakota
Category:Alaska Nanooks men's basketball coaches
Category:Jamestown Jimmies football coaches
Category:Lewis–Clark State Warriors baseball coaches
Category:North Dakota Fighting Hawks football players
Category:Rowan Profs men's basketball coaches
Category:Winnipeg Blue Bombers players
Category:High school basketball coaches in Alaska
Category:People from Mandan, North Dakota
Category:Wilmington Clippers players
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