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Lee Roy Selmon's history combines the benefits of football family scholarship with volunteering for the community. The first family is his youngest of nine children born to Lucious and Jessie Selmon raised on a family farm near Eufala, Oklahoma. In football, he was alongside three brothers for Oklahoma. The three brothers were all All-Americans. In 1973, Lucious Jr. Dewey and Lee Roy were starters. Lee Roy won the Outland and Lombardi Awards as the nation's most effective lineman. In his three years as Oklahoma's first lineman they went three-and-a-half and won two championships. In 1975, he was awarded his third scholarship. He was awarded the title of an National Football Foundation scholar-athlete. Selmon received a degree in education. Lee Roy dedicated ten volunteer time per week throughout the course of his college. In Tampa He played with the Buccaneers for nine seasons before becoming an all-pro. Also, he began a career in the field of business. In 1988, he began working as an Account Relations Officer for First Florida Bank in Tampa. He was employed with the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute and for the Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. It's no wonder in 1982, the Junior Chamber of Commerce named Lee Roy one of the country's most outstanding young men. As a student, Lee Roy was 6-2 and weighed about 256 lbs. He was a captain on his college team in the year 1975. Lee Roy was appointed an associate director of Athletics at the University of South Florida, in 1993. In 1993, the College Football Hall of Fame was named for him in 1998. GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1994. Pro Football Hall of Fame, in 1995. The Oklahoma City Chapter of the National Football Foundation in 1989 awarded the Distinguished American Award to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.. Lucious Selmon Sr. Henry Bellmon, the governor of Oklahoma awarded it.