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Robert Orders (January 9, 1932 – April 22, 2014) was a collegiate American football center for Army and West Virginia University. 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. He was a two-year letterman at West Point and a two-year letterman at WVU. In 1953 Orders earned first team All-American honors from the NEA Service and both second and third team selections from various selectors. Orders was inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.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.
While at the U.S. Military Academy, Orders was one of 90 players implicated in the 1951 Army "Cribbing Scandal", an investigation into a large scale honor-code violation centered around the Army Cadets football team. Orders was expelled from the academy and opted to return to West Virginia to complete his academic and athletic career.