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{{short description|American football coach}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Bill Ordway
| image = Bill Ordway.png
| alt =
| caption =
| 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 Fighting Hawks football|North Dakota]]
| player_years3 = 1946
| player_team3 = [[Winnipeg Blue Bombers]]
| player_positions = [[Fullback (gridiron football)|Fullback]]
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1949–1950
| coach_team2 = [[Jamestown Jimmies football|Jamestown]]
| coach_sport3 = Basketball
| coach_years4 = 1954–1961
| coach_team4 = [[Juneau-Douglas High School|Juneau-Douglas HS]]
| coach_years5 = 1961–1965
| coach_team5 = [[Alaska Nanooks men's basketball|Alaska]]
| coach_years6 = 1968–1969
| coach_team6 = [[Rowan Profs men's basketball|Glassboro State]]
| coach_sport7 = Baseball
| coach_years8 = 1966–1967
| coach_team8 = [[Lewis–Clark State Warriors baseball|Lewis–Clark State]]
| overall_record = 5–11 (college football)<br>26–51 (college basketball)<br>26–21 (college baseball)
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
| championships =
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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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
Ordway played football for the [[Winnipeg Blue Bombers]] of the [[Canadian Football League]] (CFL) in the early 1940s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://juneauempire.com/stories/091599/Spo_ordway.html |title=Juneau coaching legend passes on &#124; 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 }}</ref>
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===
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name         = [[Jamestown Jimmies football|Jamestown Jimmies]]
| conf         = [[North Dakota College Athletic Conference|North Dakota Intercollegiate Conference]]
| startyear    = 1949
| endyear      = 1950
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year         = [[1949 college football season|1949]]
| name         = Jamestown
| overall      = 3–5
| conference   = 3–2
| confstanding = T—4th
| bowlname     =
| bowloutcome  =
| bcsbowl      =
| ranking      = no
| ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year         = [[1950 college football season|1950]]
| name         = Jamestown
| overall      = 2–6
| conference   = 2–4
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname     =
| bowloutcome  =
| bcsbowl      =
| 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:1917 births]]
[[Category:1999 deaths]]
[[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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