{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1939)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Ron Blaylock | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|5|27}} | birth_place = Emporia, Kansas, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | player_years1 = 1959–1960 | player_team1 = Kansas State | player_positions = Quarterback | coach_years1 = 1961–1962 | coach_team1 = Emporia State (backfield) | coach_years2 = 1963–1965 | coach_team2 = Yankton | coach_years3 = 1966 | coach_team3 = Emporia State (assistant) | coach_years4 = 1967–1968 | coach_team4 = Emporia State | overall_record = 19–25–2 | bowl_record = | tournament_record = | championships = | awards = | coaching_records = }} '''Ronald Dean Blaylock''' (born May 27, 1939) is an American former football coach. He served the head football coach at Yankton College in Yankton, South Dakota from 1962 to 1965 and Kansas State Teachers College—now known as Emporia State University—in Emporia, Kansas from 1967 to 1968, compiling a career college football coaching record of 19–25–2.<ref>[http://cdm.sos.mo.gov/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/colmo1&CISOPTR=106869&CISOSHOW=107051&REC=44 Columbia Missourian] "Emporia State College Hires Ron Blaylock as Football Coach" December 13, 1966</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=2015 ESU Football MIAA Media Day Guide|url=http://www.esuhornets.com/documents/2015/8/3//2015ESUFBMIAAMediaDayPreGuide.pdf|website=ESU Hornets|publisher=Emporia State University|accessdate=November 4, 2015}}</ref>
Blaylock played college football as quarterback at Kansas State University, lettering in 1959 and 1960. He began his coaching career at Emporia State as backfield coach under Keith Caywood while earning his master's degree.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Yankton Hires Ron Blaylock As Grid Coach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62028970/argus-leader/ |newspaper=Argus Leader |location=Sioux Falls, South Dakota |agency=Associated Press |date=July 23, 1963 |page=14 |access-date=October 28, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Ron Blaylock Is Named NAIA District 12 Coach Of The Year |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62029442/the-emporia-gazette/ |newspaper=Emporia Gazette |location=Emporia, Kansas |date=January 11, 1966 |page=13 |access-date=October 28, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref>
Blaylock was married to Virginia Kay Blaylock, who died in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jdokAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KRIGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3101,531061&dq=ron+blaylock+emporia&hl=en|title= Obituary|accessdate=November 4, 2015|work=The American|publisher=The American, Fairland OK|date=March 16, 2006|page=12}}</ref>
==Head coaching record== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Yankton Greyhounds | conf = Tri-State Conference | startyear = 1963 | endyear = 1965 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1963 | name = Yankton | overall = 1–8 | conference = 1–5 | confstanding = 6th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1964 | name = Yankton | overall = 5–4 | conference = 4–2 | confstanding = T–2nd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1965 | name = Yankton | overall = 7–2 | conference = 4–2 | confstanding = 3rd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Yankton | overall = 13–14 | confrecord = 9–9 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Emporia State Hornets | conf = Central Intercollegiate Conference | startyear = 1967 | endyear = 1968 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1967 | name = Emporia State | overall = 1–9 | conference = 1–3 | confstanding = 4th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1968 | name = Emporia State | overall = 5–2–2 | conference = 2–1–1 | confstanding = T–2nd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Emporia State | overall = 6–11–2 | confrecord = 3–4–1 }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 19–25–2 | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = | legend = no }}
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