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Lee Roy Selmon's history combines the virtues of family football scholarships and volunteerism in the community. The first is the Selmon family. Lucious Selmon was the father of Jessie Selmon. He and his wife raised nine children in a Eufala farm. In football, he played alongside three brothers in Oklahoma. All three 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 as the best lineman in the country. He won two championships and 32-1-1 in his three seasons as Oklahoma's main man. The third scholarship was awarded to him. He was a National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete in 1975. Selmon graduated with a degree from the university of California, Berkeley. Lee Roy spent ten hours a week on volunteer work during his college years. After college, he moved into Tampa and played nine years for Tampa's Buccaneers. He was an All-Pro three times. After that, he began his professional career. In 1988, as an account liaison officer for First Florida Bank of Tampa, he worked with Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. There was no doubt that, in 1982, the Junior Chamber of Commerce named Lee Roy as one of the ten outstanding young people across the nation. While a student Lee Roy was 6-2 and weighed about 256 pounds. He coached his university team in the year 1975. He was promoted to the associate director of Athletics at University of South Florida. He was named to the College Football Hall of Fame through the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1994, as well as The Pro Football Hall of Fame of 1995. In 1989, the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation presented its Distinguished American Award, to Mr. Lucious Selmon and his wife. Henry Bellmon is the Oklahoma governor who made this presentation.