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Lee Roy Selmon's existence includes football scholarship, family work as well as community involvement. First family, he's the youngest of the nine children of Lucious Selmon and Jessie raised on a farm at Eufala, Oklahoma. Also, he was one of three brothers who played for Oklahoma in football. Three of them made All-America. Lucious Jr. Dewey & Lee Roy started for one season in 1973. Lee Roy was named the top offensive lineman in country by Outland as well as Lombardi Awards. In his three years as a starter Oklahoma went 32- 1-1 and won two national championships. The National Football Foundation named him a Scholar-Athlete for the third time in 1975. Selmon earned a degree as an educator. Lee Roy dedicated ten volunteer hours per week during college. After graduation, he landed in Tampa played nine years with the Buccaneers was an all-pro three times before beginning an entrepreneurial career. In 1988, while working as an account liaison officer for First Florida Bank of Tampa He was a member of the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. He was no surprise that, in 1982, the Junior Chamber of Commerce named Lee Roy as one of the 10 outstanding youngsters throughout the United States. Lee Roy was 6'2" tall and weighed 265 pounds during his time playing college football. In 1975, he led the team. In 1993, Roy was a part of the university of south Florida's athletic department as assistant director. He was named to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988, and the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1994 the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1989, the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation gave its Distinguished American Award Mr. Lucious Sr. Henry Bellmon the Governor of Oklahoma made the presentation.