George W. "Doc" Jacobs (February 23, 1900 – May 19, 1968) was an American coach and athletic director.
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.
Jacobs died of a heart attack on May 19, 1968, at the age of 68, at his home in Winooski, Vermont.
Jacobs is considered "the father of modern day St. Michael's College Athletics".
[citation needed] In 2014, Jacobs was posthumously inducted into the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame.