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Lee Roy Selmon has a history that combines family scholarship football and volunteer work in the community. The first family is his youngest of the nine children of Lucious Selmon and Jessie. The family lived on a family farm near Eufala, Oklahoma. He played football with three of his brothers in Oklahoma. Three brothers all made All-Americans. The year was 1973. Lucious Jr. Dewey and Lee Roy were starters. Lee Roy has won both the Outland Award as well as the Lombardi award as the best lineman in the country. For three years, Oklahoma was 32-1-1 with Roy being the starting player. Also, they won two national championships. Selmon was a National Football Foundation Scholarship-Athlete, Selmon was awarded the opportunity to receive a scholarship in his third time in 1975. Selmon graduated with a degree from the University of California in Berkeley. Fourth service In college Lee Roy devoted ten hours per week to volunteer projects. In Tampa, he played for the Buccaneers for nine seasons, and eventually became an all-pro. Additionally, he started an entrepreneurial career. In 1988, while working 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. He was no surprise that In 1982, The Junior Chamber of Commerce named Lee Roy one of ten outstanding young people throughout the United States. Lee Roy weighed 256 lbs and stood at a height of 7-foot-2. In his time at for college, he was the head coach of the team of 1975. In 1993, he became the assistant director of Athletics at the University of South Florida. In 1988, Selmon was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The same year, he also was a part of his way into the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 1989, the Oklahoma City Chapter of the National Football Foundation in 1989 presented its Distinguished American Award to his parents Mr. and Mrs.. Lucious Selmon Sr. Henry Bellmon is the Oklahoma governor that made the award.