Percy Locey

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Percy P. Locey (November 28, 1894 – August 12, 1981) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played tackle at Oregon State University, earning a letter as a freshman in 1915 and returning after World War I to captain the team in 1922. He played in the 1925 East–West Shrine Game and served as Oregon State’s student body president in 1923–24. He also played for the Olympic Club in San Francisco in 1926 and later coached there (1928–1931), guiding the team to an undefeated season in his first year.

Locey coached football at the University of Denver from 1932 to 1935, posting a 20–14–3 record and never having a losing season. He returned to Oregon State as athletic director in 1937, a post he held until 1947. Under his leadership, Oregon State won the Pacific Coast Conference title in 1941 and earned a Rose Bowl berth for the 1942 game. After Pearl Harbor, he moved the Rose Bowl to Duke University and oversaw refunds and arrangements for Beaver fans; Oregon State defeated Duke 20–16, the program’s only Rose Bowl win.

Locey was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Oregon State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1990. He died in Corvallis in 1981. His grandson Jay Locey played for Oregon State in the 1970s and later served as assistant head coach from 2006 to 2014.