John William Knibbs Jr.[1] (November 8, 1880 – July 5, 1953) was an American football player and coach.
An account written by a student described Knibbs' coaching style as follows:"All hopes and fears of our University are now bound up in the coming Stanford-California football game.
We are lying very low and keeping very quiet, as the policy of our Eastern coach, Knibbs, of Dartmouth, is most conservative.
The work his [sic] year has been tackled in a serious, dogged style by all those out; this alone has won much respect for our new coach.
[10] At the time of the 1930 United States Census, he was living in Mount Vernon, New York with his wife, Marion, and their two children, Olive (age 21) and John.