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Lee Roy Selmon's history combines the virtues of family football scholarship and volunteerism in the community. Selmon is the youngest of children from Lucious Selmon, and Jessie Semon. They raised him on the family farm near Eufala. Two, football. He is among three brothers who played for Oklahoma. All three were All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey, Lee Roy, and Lucious Jr. Dewey started the 1973 season. Lee Roy has won both the Outland Award and the Lombardi award as the top lineman in America. In the three years that Roy played as a player, Oklahoma won two National Championships. He received a third scholarship in 1975, and was named as an National Football Foundation Student-Athlete. Selmon received his bachelor's master's degree in educational studies. Fourth-year service in the college Lee Roy devoted ten hours each week on volunteer work. After graduation, he landed in Tampa playing nine years for the Buccaneers was an all-pro three times before beginning an entrepreneurial career. The first position he held was a Account Relations Officer with First Florida Bank, Tampa. In the past, he worked previously for the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. In 1982, the Junior Chamber of Commerce honored his name in 1982, as one of the top 10 youngsters of the United States. Lee Roy stood 6-2 in the height department and weighed 256 lbs as a college player he played for the team of 1975. In 1993 he was appointed associate director of the University of South Florida. In 1988, he was voted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The same year, he also was a part of the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame as well as the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 1995, the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation presented the Distinguished American Award for 1989 to Lucious Selmon, Sr. Henry Bellmon was the Oklahoma Governor that presented the award.