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Lee Roy Selmon's history combines the virtues of family football academic scholarship with social service. First family, he's the youngest of the nine children Lucious and Jessie Selmon raised on the farm of Eufala, Oklahoma. Second, football was his favorite sport. He was the third brother who played for Oklahoma. The three brothers were all All-America. Lucious Jr. Dewey, Lee Roy, and Lucious Jr. Dewey started the 1973 season. Lee Roy received the Outland and Lombardi Awards for being the nation's top lineman. During his three seasons as Oklahoma's first lineman, the Sooners went 33-1-1, and picked up two championships. Selmon received a third scholarship in 1975 and named as a National Football Foundation Student-Athlete. Selmon graduated with a diploma in education. Lee Roy spent ten hours per week volunteering during college. He settled down in Tampa after graduation, and played in the Buccaneers for nine seasons and made three times all-pro. His career in business began. When he was in the year 1988, he worked as an Account Relation Manager in the First Florida Bank in Tampa. The bank was also a partner of 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. It's no wonder he was named one of the 10 most notable young men across the United States in 1982 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1982. When he was a student Lee Roy was 6-2 and was weighing a little over 256 pounds. He captained his college team in 1975. He was named the associate director of athletics at the University of South Florida, in 1993. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988 the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1994, and then the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. The Oklahoma City Chapter of the National Football Foundation in 1989 gave its Distinguished American Award to his parents Mr. and Mrs.. Lucious Selmon Sr. Henry Bellmon was the Oklahoma Governor, who awarded this award.