| George Jacobs | |
| Birth Date: | February 23, 1900 |
| Birth Place: | Hudson, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Death Date: | May 19, 1968 (aged 68) |
| Death Place: | Winooski, Vermont, U.S. |
| Player Sport1: | Football |
| Player Years2: | 1924–1926 |
| Player Team2: | Villanova |
| Player Sport3: | Basketball |
| Player Years4: | 1923–1926 |
| Player Team4: | Villanova |
| Player Sport5: | Baseball |
| Player Years6: | c. 1925 |
| Player Team6: | Villanova |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1929 |
| Coach Team2: | Villanova (assistant) |
| Coach Years3: | 1947–1953 |
| Coach Team3: | Saint Michael's |
| Coach Sport4: | Basketball |
| Coach Years5: | 1929–1936 |
| Coach Team5: | Villanova |
| Coach Years6: | 1947–1948 |
| Coach Team6: | Saint Michael's |
| Coach Years7: | 1952–1964 |
| Coach Team7: | Saint Michael's |
| Coach Sport8: | Baseball |
| Coach Years9: | 1933–1943 |
| Coach Team9: | Villanova |
| Coach Years10: | 1948–1956 |
| Coach Team10: | Saint Michael's |
| Admin Years1: | 1947–1968 |
| Admin Team1: | Saint Michael's |
| Overall Record: | 28–8–2 (football) 220–164 (basketball) 139–95–1 |
George W. "Doc" Jacobs (February 23, 1900 – May 19, 1968) was an American coach and athletic director. He served as the third head men's basketball coach at Villanova University from 1929 to 1936. A three-sport star in football, basketball and baseball at Villanova in the mid-1920s, Jacobs later became the school's baseball coach from 1933 to 1943, with a Villanova won-loss record of 106–37.
After World War II in 1947, Jacobs moved to the Burlington, Vermont suburb of Winooski, where he became the athletic director at Saint Michael's College, serving in that and other athletic capacities until his death in 1968. Jacobs served as the school's baseball coach from 1948 through 1956, but it was as the school's basketball coach in the 1950s and early 1960s that he established St. Michael's NCAA Division II program, winning 159 games over a 12-year span and going to the NCAA National Division II tournament in Evansville, Indiana for three straight seasons, 1958 to 1960. He also served as the school's football coach. His 1951 "Purple Knights" went 6–0 and were declared "New England Champions".
Jacobs died of a heart attack on May 19, 1968, at the age of 68, at his home in Winooski, Vermont.[1]
St. Michael's honors the memory of "Doc" annually, with their basketball season-opening tournament called "The Doc Jacobs Classic" and their athletic fields are named "Doc" Jacobs Field. Jacobs is considered "the father of modern day St. Michael's College Athletics".
In 2014, Jacobs was posthumously inducted into the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame.