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Lee Roy Selmon has a history that combines family scholarship football with volunteer work in the community. He was the eldest child from Lucious Selmon and Jessie Selmon, who brought him up on the farm they owned in Eufala. Second, football was his favorite sport. He was one of three brothers who were players for Oklahoma. Three of them were All-Americans. For 1973 Lee Roy and Lucious Jr. Dewey were the starters for one year. Lee Roy received the Outland & Lombardi Awards for being the nation's top lineman. Oklahoma had two National Championships throughout his time as a starting linebacker. On his third scholarship, he was named the National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete in 1975. Selmon has a bachelor's degree in educational studies. Lee Roy spent ten hours every week in volunteer work in his college days. After college he settled in Tampa and played for nine seasons with the Buccaneers played all-pro three times before launching a professional career. He began his career in 1988. worked as an Account Relation Officer for First Florida Bank in Tampa. The bank was also a partner of the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute and for the Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. No wonder that In 1982 the Junior Chamber of Commerce named him one of the nation's the top 10 most promising young men. Lee Roy stood 6-2 in height and weighed 256 pounds when he was a student athlete. He led the 1975 team. He was named assistant director of Athletics for the University of South Florida, in 1993. In 1988, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The same year, he also was inducted into the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 1989, the Oklahoma City Chapter of the National Football Foundation in 1989 gave its Distinguished American Award to his parents Mr. and Mrs.. Lucious Selmon Sr. The award presentation was given by Henry Bellmon govenor of Oklahoma.