William John Schneider (May 16, 1883 – April 17, 1958) was an American college football player and coach.

[1] He is credited with making the first legal reception of a forward pass in American football, thrown by Bradbury Robinson in a game at Carroll College on September 5, 1906.

[2] Interviewed in a Jacksonville, Florida hospital room in 1956, 50 years after the play, Schneider remembered what was also the first pass reception for touchdown in the game's history.

But Brad could throw the ball a long way, so we switched positions for that one play.

[3] # denotes interim athletic director This biographical article relating to a college football player is a stub.