Percy Locey (November 28, 1894 – August 12, 1981) was a football player and athletic director at Oregon State who also led other teams as a head football coach.
Locey enrolled at Oregon State (then Oregon Agricultural College) in 1915 and played competitive football as a freshman. His career and education, however, was put on hold during World War I. Returning to OAC in 1921, he became an outstanding tackle on the Aggies football team. Locey lettered in 1915 and again from 1921 to 1923 and was team captain in 1923. He was chosen to play in the 1925 East-West Shrine Game for his on-field achievements. Percy also served as student body president his senior year at Oregon State.
In 1926, Locey played football at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. He was a member of the Olympic’s “Winged-O” team that handed the University of California’s "Wonder Team” their first loss in five seasons. In 1928, Locey took over as the head football coach at the Olympic Club. His next head coaching position was at the University of Denver, where he spent four seasons and posted an overall record of 20–14–3, never having a losing season.
In 1937, Locey returned to Corvallis to become the athletic director at what was then known as Oregon State College. Locey steered the athletics department through the lean days of The Depression and saw Lon Stiner's football team have great success at the end of the decade. His finest moment might have been organizing the relocation of the 1942 Rose Bowl to Durham, NC following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Percy handled ticketing and travel after the game was his moved in a short timeframe of 24 days. The Beavers won the game vs Duke 2016, the school's only Rose Bowl victory.
Percy Locey retired from OSC in 1947 and was inducted into the Oregon State University Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. His legacy lives on with his grandson, Jay Locey, who also played at Oregon State and enjoyed a long coaching career at Oregon stops including Linfield, Oregon State and Lewis & Clark.