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Lee Roy Selmon has a background that is a combination of family scholarships football with volunteer work in the community. His first family is that Selmon is the eldest of nine kids who were raised within Eufala through Lucious Selmon. In football, he played with three of his brothers from Oklahoma. The three brothers were all All-America. 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. In his time as Oklahoma's starting quarterback, the Sooners went 32-1-1 and won two national championships. Selmon was honored when the National Football Foundation named him a Scholar-Athlete for the third time in the year 1975. Selmon earned his diploma in education. Lee Roy was involved in volunteer work ten hour per week throughout his college years. After college, he moved into Tampa and played nine seasons with Tampa's Buccaneers. He made the All-Pro for three occasions. Then he started his career. The year 1988 was the first time he worked as an Account Relations Officer at First Florida Bank in Tampa. He worked for the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute as well as the Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. The Junior Chamber of Commerce honored him in 1982 as being among the top 10 young men of the United States. Lee Roy was 6'2" tall and weighed 265lbs when he played college football. The year 1975 was the first time he was the captain of the squad. He was promoted to the athletic director's assistant at University of South Florida. He was named to the College Football Hall of Fame through the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1994, as well as the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1989, the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation presented the Distinguished American Award, to Mr. Lucious Selmon and his wife. Henry Bellmon, the governor of Oklahoma awarded it.





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