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Lee Roy Selmon's history combines the benefits of football scholarship with volunteerism in the community. His first family is that Selmon is the eldest of nine kids raised in Eufala through Lucious Selmon. In football, he was with his three brothers from Oklahoma. All three became 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 best lineman. For three years, Oklahoma was 32-1-1 with Roy being the starting player. They also won the national title twice. Selmon was honored when the National Football Foundation named him a Scholar-Athlete for the third time in the year 1975. Selmon earned a degree in Education. Lee Roy's fourth service was ten-hours per week as a volunteer in college. He settled down in Tampa after graduation, and played with the Buccaneers for nine years and made three times all-pro. The business venture he started began. 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. So it's not surprising that in 1982, the Junior Chamber of Commerce named him one of the nation's top 10 young men. When he was a student Lee Roy was 6-2 and weighed about 256 pounds. He was captain of his college team in the year 1975. In 1993, he was a part of at the University of South Florida as an associate director of athletics. In 1993, the College Football Hall of Fame named him on the 28th of October, 1988. GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1994. Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1989 the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation awarded their Distinguished American Award, to Mr. Lucious Selmon and his wife. The award ceremony was conducted by Henry Bellmon govenor of Oklahoma.