Ron Coder

{{Short description|American football player (born 1954)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Ron Coder

| image = Seattle Seahawk offensive guard Ron Coder filming a 1978 public service announcement for the Washington Army National Guard.JPG

| caption = Seattle Seahawks offensive guard Ron Coder while filming a 1978 public service announcement for the Washington Army National Guard.

| number = 60, 61

| position = Guard

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|5|24}}

| birth_place = Savannah, Georgia, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 4

| weight_lbs = 250

| high_school = Yamato

| college = Penn State

| draftyear = 1976

| draftround = 3

| draftpick = 70

| pastteams =

|statlabel1=Games played

|statvalue1=53

|statlabel2=Games started

|statvalue2=21

|statlabel3=Fumble recoveries

|statvalue3=2

|pfr=CodeRo20

}}

Ronald William Coder (born May 24, 1954) is an American former professional football player who played in five National Football League (NFL) seasons from 1976 to 1980 for the Seattle Seahawks and St. Louis Cardinals. He was head coach of the Pittsburgh Passion of the Independent Women's Football League.[http://www.pittsburghpassion.com/coaches/coder.shtml Head Coach Ron Coder], pittsburghpassion.com, accessed October 1, 2007. He was born in Savannah, Georgia. Coder graduated in 1972 from Yamato High School in Japan, where his father Ronald Coder, also an athlete, was then stationed as an Air Force pilot.

As of April 23, 2013, Coder assumed the role of head coach of Canon McMillian Senior High School's football team.

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