Roger Locke and Dick Locke were brothers and both standout football players at Muskegon High School, part of the Locke family that Big Reds historians still talk about to this day. Dick and Roger took the lessons they learned at Muskegon and went on to bigger fame as college players at Arizona State University, where they were teammates with 2008 MASHF inductee Ossie McCarty. Roger, also a two-way player as an end, was All-Border Conference as a junior, and ASU team MVP and an All-Western Athletic Conference selection as a senior in 1962. Selected to the roster of the annual Blue-Gray Bowl, he was drafted by San Francisco of the NFL and Oakland of the AFL before signing with Winnipeg of the Canadian Football League. Roger played in Canada with the Blue Bombers for two seasons under coach Bud Grant before a leg injury cut short his professional career. He retired from football in 1966.