| James E. Addicott | |
| Birth Date: | 23 February 1869 |
| Birth Place: | Taunton, England |
| Death Place: | Los Gatos, California, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Columbia |
| Coach Years1: | 1893–1895 |
| Coach Team1: | San Jose State |
| Coach Years2: | 1900 |
| Coach Team2: | San Jose State |
James Edwin Addicott (February 23, 1869 – March 22, 1957) was an American college football coach and educator He served as the head football coach at San Jose State Normal School—now known as San Jose State University—in 1893, 1895, and 1900. Addicott was a fellow in the mathematics department at San Jose State from 1892 to 1900.[1] He later served as high school principal, at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans from 1904 to 1908 and San Francisco Polytechnic High School from 1914 to 1939.
Addicott wasborn on February 23, 1869, in Taunton, England.[2] He moved to the United States as a child, first to Ohio, and then to Modoc County, California, where as a teenager, he began teaching as a rural school, in the late 1880s. He graduated from San Jose State Normal School in 1890 and the St. Louis Manual Training School,in St. Louis, in 1891.[2] At the St. Louis Manual Training School, he played football as a center in the school's scimmage against Washington University. Addicot retired to Los Gatos, California in 1939. He died on March 22, 1957, at his home in Los Gatos.[3] He was buried at El Camelo Cemetery in Pacific Grove, California.[4]