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Lee Roy Selmon has a history that combines family scholarship football with volunteer work in the community. First, the Selmon family. Lucious Selmon was the father of Jessie Selmon. The family raised nine kids on a Eufala farm. In second football, he was one of three brothers who were players for Oklahoma. All three were All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey & Lee Roy started for one season in 1973. Lee Roy received the Outland and Lombardi Awards for being the most effective lineman in the United States. In the three years that Roy was a starter, Oklahoma won two National Championships. In 1975, Selmon was awarded the third scholarship of his career and was named the National Football Foundation scholar-athlete. Selmon has a bachelor's degree in education. Lee Roy's fourth volunteer service was ten-hours per week of volunteer time in college. After college he settled in Tampa and played for nine seasons with the Buccaneers were all-pro three times and started his business career. In 1988, as an account representative at 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 one of 10 outstanding youngsters across the nation. Lee Roy weighed 256 lbs and was a tall of 7-foot-2. When he was playing for college, he was the head coach of the 1975 team. He was hired by the University of South Florida in 1993 as an assistant director of sports. In 1988, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He also made an appearance in the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 1995, the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation awarded the Distinguished American Award for 1989 to Lucious Selmon, Sr. Henry Bellmon, the governor of Oklahoma awarded it.