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Lee Roy Selmon has a background that is a combination of family scholarships football and volunteer work in the community. First family he is the youngest of the nine children of Lucious the Jessie and Lucious Selmon raised on a farm at Eufala, Oklahoma. Another reason for his football career was that he is the youngest of three brothers who played with Oklahoma. All three were All-Americans. One year 1973 Lucious Jr. Dewey and Lee Roy were starters. Lee Roy has won both the Outland Award as well as the Lombardi Award for being the top lineman in America. In the three years that Roy played as a player, Oklahoma won two National Championships. In 1975, the National Football Foundation named him as a Scholar-Athlete three times time in 1975. Selmon obtained his degree in education. Lee Roy dedicated ten volunteer hours per week during his time in college. After graduation, he moved into Tampa and played nine years with Tampa's Buccaneers. He made the All-Pro for three occasions. He then began his professional career. In 1988, while working as an account representative at 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. There was no doubt that the year 1982 was when the Junior Chamber of Commerce named Lee Roy as one of the 10 outstanding youngsters throughout the United States. Lee Roy, a 6-2-inch taller and weighing 256 pounds in college as a player, captained his team for the year 1975. In 1993, he was appointed the associate director of Athletics at the University of South Florida. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame since 1988. In 1995, the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation presented its Distinguished American Award for 1989 to Lucious Selmon, Sr. The presentation was made by Henry Bellmon govenor of Oklahoma.