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Lee Roy Selmon has a tradition that blends family scholarship football with volunteering for the community. In the first place Selmon was born with Lucious as well as Jessie Selmon on the farm close to Eufala within Oklahoma as the youngest of the nine children they had. He was also one of three siblings who represented Oklahoma on the field of football. All three of them were All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey, Lee Roy, and Lucious Jr. Dewey started the 1973 season. Lee Roy was named the most offensive lineman in the nation by the Outland and Lombardi Awards. In three years, Oklahoma was 32-1-1 with Roy serving as their starting line-up. They also won the national title twice. In 1975, he received his third scholarship and was named a National Football Foundation scholar-athlete. Selmon earned a degree in education. Lee Roy was involved in volunteer work ten hour per week while he attended college. After college he settled in Tampa played nine years with the Buccaneers was an all-pro three times before beginning his business career. The year 1988 was the first time he began working as an Account Relation Manager for First Florida Bank in Tampa. He was employed by the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute and 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 10 outstanding young men. 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 appointed the assistant director of Athletics at the University of South Florida. Selmon has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame since 1988. In 1989 The Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation gave the Distinguished American Award Mr. Lucious Sr. Henry Bellmon the Governor of Oklahoma was the person who presented the award.