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Lee Roy Selmon has a history that combines family scholarship football and volunteer work in the community. Selmon is the youngest of children from Lucious Selmon, and Jessie Semon. They raised him on the farm they owned in Eufala. The Selmons were also among the three brothers who played for Oklahoma on the field of football. The three brothers all made 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. Over the course of three seasons, Roy played as a player, Oklahoma won two National Championships. As an National Football Foundation Scholarship-Athlete, Selmon was awarded a scholarship for the third season in the year 1975. Selmon earned a degree in education. Lee Roy's fourth service was ten-hours per week as a volunteer in the college. He moved to Tampa after graduation, and playing for the Buccaneers for a period of nine years, and made three times all-pro. His business career began. In 1988, he began working as an Account Relation Manager in the First Florida Bank in Tampa. He was employed by the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute and the Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. There's no surprise that Lee Roy was honored when the Junior Chamber of Commerce designated Lee Roy as among the most prominent young men across the nation. Lee Roy weighed 256 lbs and stood at a height of 7-foot-2. In his time at college, he was the captain of the team of 1975. He joined University of South Florida in 1993 as an associate director of sports. He has been inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame since 1988. 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.