Knight was a football, track, and basketball coach at Crooksville High School in Crooksville, Ohio who moved to Canada in 1965 to become athletic director and head men's basketball coach of the Waterloo Lutheran (later Wilfrid Laurier) Golden Hawks in Waterloo, Ontario.
Knight came back to be Canadian university football coach of the year in 1989.
At the time of his retirement, he was the winningest coach in Canadian university football history with 153 career wins (record surpassed in 2003).
He was a three-time winner of the Frank Tindall Trophy as the top university football coach in Canada.
He coached the Phoenix of Resurrection Catholic Secondary School (Kitchener, Ontario).