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Lee Roy Selmon's lifestyle is one of football scholarships, family involvement and community involvement. The first family is his youngest of the nine children born to Lucious Selmon and Jessie raised on a farm at Eufala, Oklahoma. The second football was that his father was the only of three brothers to play for Oklahoma. Three of them made All-America. The year was 1973. Lucious Jr. Dewey and Lee Roy were starters. Lee Roy has won both the Outland Award as well as the Lombardi Award for being the top lineman in America. The three years he was a starter Oklahoma was 32-1-1 and won two national championships. In 1975, he received his third scholarship, and was recognized as a National Football Foundation scholar-athlete. Selmon obtained his diploma in education. Lee Roy was involved in voluntary work for 10 hours a week while he attended college. He settled down in Tampa after college, was a member of the Buccaneers for nine years and was three-times all-pro. The business venture he started began. In 1988, he was working as an Account Relations Officer in the 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 and the Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. So it's not surprising that In 1982, the Junior Chamber of Commerce named him one of the nation's 10 outstanding young men. When he was a student Lee Roy was 6-2 and weighs a little over 256 lbs. He was captain of his college team in 1975. He joined University of South Florida in 1993 as the Associate Director of Sports. He has been inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame since 1988. In 1989 the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation awarded their Distinguished American Award, to Mr. Lucious Selmon and his wife. Henry Bellmon the Governor of Oklahoma made the presentation.