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Lee Roy Selmon's tale combines the football scholarship of his family and service to his community. First, the Selmon family. Lucious Selmon was the father of Jessie Selmon. They raised nine children on a Eufala farm. The second football was that his father was the only of three brothers who played with Oklahoma. The three brothers were All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey & Lee Roy started for one season in 1973. Lee Roy has won both the Outland Award and the Lombardi Award for being the top lineman in America. Over the course of three seasons, Oklahoma was 32-1-1 with Roy as the starter. The team also took home two national championships. Third scholarship he was named an National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete in 1975. Selmon earned a degree in education. Lee Roy's fourth service was ten-hours per week of volunteer time in the college. After graduation, he moved in Tampa and played for nine years with the Buccaneers. He was an All-Pro for three occasions. He then began his professional career. In 1988, as an account relations officer at First Florida Bank of Tampa and worked for the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. The Junior Chamber of Commerce honored his name in 1982, as one of the top 10 youths from the United States. As a student, Lee Roy was 6-2 and was weighing 256 pounds. He captained his college team in the year 1975. In 1993 he joined the University of South Florida as an associate director of athletics. In 1988, he was voted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He also made the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame as well as the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Oklahoma City Chapter of the National Football Foundation in 1989 gave the Distinguished American Award to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.. Lucious Selmon Sr. The award was presented by Henry Bellmon govenor of Oklahoma.





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