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Lee Roy Selmon's history combines the benefits of football scholarship and volunteerism in the community. He was the youngest son of Lucious Selmon and Jessie Selmon. They took care of him at the farm they owned in Eufala. Another reason for his football career was that Selmon is the youngest of three brothers who played for Oklahoma. Three of them made All-America. Lucious Jr. Dewey, Lee Roy, and Lucious Jr. Dewey started the 1973 season. Lee Roy won the Outland and Lombardi Awards as the nation's top lineman. For three seasons as an offensive lineman, Oklahoma went 32- 1-1 and won two national championships. The third scholarship was awarded to him. He was as a National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete in 1975. Selmon earned his master's degree in educational studies. Lee Roy's fourth volunteer service included ten hours per week as a volunteer in the college. Following college, he moved to Tampa playing nine years for the Buccaneers were an all-pro three times before beginning an entrepreneurial career. In 1988, as an account liaison officer for First Florida Bank of Tampa and worked 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. No wonder that in 1982, the Junior Chamber of Commerce named Lee Roy as one of America's 10 outstanding young men. Lee Roy was 6'2" tall and weighed 265lbs in the time he played football at college. In 1975, he was on the team. squad. He was promoted to the athletic director's assistant at the University of South Florida. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame through The GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame of 1994 and The Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. His parents, Lucious as well as Mary Selmon, Jr. received the Distinguished American Award in 1989 from the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation. The award was presented by Henry Bellmon govenor of Oklahoma.





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