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Lee Roy Selmon's existence is a combination of football scholarship, family work and involvement in the community. His first family is that his father was the youngest of nine kids who were raised within Eufala through Lucious Selmon. The second football was that he is the youngest of three brothers who played with Oklahoma. Three of them were All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey & Lee Roy started for one season in 1973. Lee Roy won the Outland and Lombardi Awards as the nation's best lineman. Over the course of three seasons, Oklahoma was 32-1-1 with Roy as the starter. They also won the national title twice. In 1975, Selmon was awarded the third scholarship of his career and was recognized as an National Football Foundation scholar-athlete. Selmon obtained a degree in education. Lee Roy spent ten hours a week on volunteer work in his college days. Following college, he moved to Tampa playing nine years for the Buccaneers were the all-pro 3 times, and began an entrepreneurial career. In 1988, as an account representative at 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. It's no wonder In 1982, the Junior Chamber of Commerce named him one of the nation's most outstanding young males. Lee Roy, a 6-2-inch taller and weighing more than 256 pounds when he played in the college level as player, commanded his team throughout 1975. In 1993, he was named assistant director of the University of South Florida. In 1993, the College Football Hall of Fame recognized him in the year 1988. GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame, in 1994. Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. The Selmons' parents Lucious and Mary Selmon Jr. have been awarded the Distinguished American Award in 1989 from the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation. Henry Bellmon the Governor of Oklahoma presented the award.