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Lee Roy Selmon's history combines the virtues of family football scholarship with volunteerism in the community. He is the youngest child from Lucious Selmon and Jessie Semon. They raised him on their farm in Eufala. The second football was that he is the youngest of three brothers who played with Oklahoma. Three brothers were All-America. Lucious Jr. Dewey & Lee Roy started for one season in 1973. Lee Roy has won both the Outland Award as well as the Lombardi award as the best lineman in the country. In his three years as the team's starter, Oklahoma went 32- 1-1 and also won two championships at the national level. In 1975, Selmon was awarded his third scholarship, and was recognized as an National Football Foundation scholar-athlete. Selmon earned a degree as an educator. Lee Roy dedicated ten volunteer time per week throughout the college. After graduation Lee Roy relocating to Tampa where he spent nine years playing for the Buccaneers. There were three times, he was named an All-Pro. Then he began his business career. In 1988, as an account liaison officer for First Florida Bank of Tampa, he worked with Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. There's no surprise that the Junior Chamber of Commerce designated Lee Roy as among the 10 most notable young men in the country. When he was a student Lee Roy was 6-2 and weighed about 256 pounds. He coached his university team in the year 1975. In 1993, he was named assistant director of the University of South Florida. He was named to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988, and the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1994, and then the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. The Selmons' parents Lucious as well as Mary Selmon, Jr. were awarded the Distinguished American Award in 1989 from the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation. Henry Bellmon was the Oklahoma Governor that presented the award.