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Lee Roy Selmon has a history that combines family scholarship football and volunteer work in the community. The first line of his family was that Selmon is the eldest of nine kids who were raised in Eufala by Lucious Selmon. The second football was that his father was the only of three brothers to play for Oklahoma. All three were All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey & Lee Roy started for one season in 1973. Lee Roy won the Outland and Lombardi Awards as the nation's most effective lineman. In his three years as the team's starter, Oklahoma was 32-1-1 and also won two championships at the national level. A third scholarship saw him named a National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete in 1975. Selmon earned a degree in education. Lee Roy was involved in volunteer work ten hour per week during his time at college. After graduation, he landed in Tampa and played for nine seasons with the Buccaneers played the all-pro 3 times, and began an entrepreneurial career. The year 1988 was the first time he began working as an Account Relation Manager at First Florida Bank in Tampa. He worked for the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute as well as the Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. In 1982 The Junior Chamber of Commerce recognized Lee Roy as one of the 10 of America's most outstanding young men. Lee Roy stood 6-2 in size and weighed in at 256 pounds as a college player he was captain of the team in 1975. In 1993, he became the associate director of Athletics at the University of South Florida. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988 the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1994 the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1995, the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation presented an award of the Distinguished American Award for 1989 to Lucious Selmon, Sr. Henry Bellmon, the governor of Oklahoma awarded it.