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Lee Roy Selmon has a story that has a family history of scholarship football and social service. He was the eldest child from Lucious Selmon and Jessie Selmon, who took care of him at the farm they owned in Eufala. Also, he was one of three siblings to represent Oklahoma in football. Three of them made 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 most effective lineman. Oklahoma won two National Championships in his three-year tenure as the lineman. He was awarded a third scholarship in 1975, and was named as an National Football Foundation Student-Athlete. Selmon received his bachelor's master's degree in educational studies. Lee Roy dedicated ten volunteer times a week in his time in college. After graduation, he relocated to Tampa where he played nine years with the Buccaneers was all-pro three times, before beginning a new business career. In 1988, he started working as an Account Relation Officer in the First Florida Bank in Tampa. He worked for 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. In 1982 The Junior Chamber of Commerce recognized Lee Roy as being among 10 among America's best young males. As a student, Lee Roy was 6-2 and was weighing a little over 256 pounds. He was captain of his university team in 1975. He was named assistant director of Athletics for the University of South Florida, in 1993. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988, and the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. 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.