Robert Orders (January 9, 1932 – April 22, 2014) was an American college football player who was a center for the Army Black Knights and West Virginia Mountaineers.

[4] Orders was a star two-sport athlete at Huntington High School in West Virginia and there earned prep All-State selection in both football and basketball.

[5] In the 1953 NFL draft, Orders was picked 151st overall in the 13th round by the Green Bay Packers but declined the offer, choosing to enter into military service.

It was discovered that head coach Earl "Red" Blaik had instructed West Point representatives to visit various congressmen in order to persuade them to appoint applicants on the basis of athletic ability over academic and character ratings.

[9] Further allegations arose surrounding "all-expenses-paid" visits and "illegitimate" appointments to the academy on the part of Col. Earl Blaik's athletic department.

[10][11] The primary conflict of the scandal, however, was the discover that "[...] a majority of the West Point football team was involved in breaking the academy's code of honor."

Reports blame an over-emphasis on athletics as cadets' priority and the appointment of students lacking the academic requirements for attendance at the academy.

[21] In 1960, The Pittsburgh Press released an all-time West Virginia team which place Orders as the center and later named him the best player in the university's history.

[5] After his graduation from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science degree in the College of Commerce, Orders was selected 151st overall by the Green Bay Packers in the 13th round of the 1953 NFL draft.

[7] He served for two years at Fort Benning, Georgia, from 1954 to 1956, upon his honorable discharge, moved to Charleston, West Virginia, with his wife, Susan Ball Orders.