James Gibson Holgate (August 13, 1920 – November 7, 2011) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
Holgate was later an assistant football coach and an administrator in the athletic department at Yale University.
At the time of the 1930 United States Census, Holgate was living with his parents, four sisters, and a brother in Shorewood, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
[4] Holgate served on an assault transport in the Pacific Theater of Operations and attained the rank of a lieutenant colonel.
[1] In 1946, after concluding his military service, Holgate returned to the University of Michigan where he received both bachelor's and master's degrees.
He served as a graduate assistant to Fritz Crisler on the undefeated 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team.