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Lee Roy Selmon has a history that combines family scholarship football with volunteer work in the community. Selmon is the youngest of children from Lucious Selmon and Jessie Semon. They had him raised on the farm they owned in Eufala. In football, he played with his three brothers from 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 top lineman. In his time as the Oklahoma's quarterback of choice, the Sooners went 32-1-1 and captured two national titles. Third scholarship he was named a National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete in 1975. Selmon received a diploma as a teacher. Lee Roy dedicated ten volunteer time per week throughout the college. After college, he moved to Tampa and played nine seasons for the Buccaneers. He was an All-Pro three times. After that, he began his career. In 1988, he was an Account Relation Officer for Tampa's First Florida Bank. He was also involved with these organisations: Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. It was the Junior Chamber of Commerce honored Lee Roy in 1982 for being among the top 10 youths from the United States. Lee Roy weighed 256 lbs and stood at a height of 6'2 inches. When he was playing college, he was the captain of the team of 1975. In 1993, Roy was a part of at the University of South Fla's athletic department as its assistant director. He was inducted into 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. In 1989 The Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation awarded its Distinguished American Award Mr. Lucious Jr. Henry Bellmon the Governor of Oklahoma presented the award.





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