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Lee Roy Selmon has a tradition that blends family scholarship football and volunteering for the community. The first family is his youngest of nine children born to Lucious and Jessie Selmon raised on a family farm near Eufala, Oklahoma. In football, he played with three of his brothers from Oklahoma. Three of them were All-Americans. A year later, in 1973 Lucious Jr. Dewey and Lee Roy were starters. Lee Roy was named the most effective offensive lineman of the country by Outland Lombardi, the Outland Awards. Oklahoma was the winner of two National Championships in his three-year tenure as the player of the team. In 1975, he was awarded the third scholarship of his career and was named the National Football Foundation scholar-athlete. Selmon graduated with a qualification in the field of education. Fourth Service in the college Lee Roy devoted ten hours every week for volunteer activities. After graduation, he relocated to Tampa played nine years with the Buccaneers was all-pro three times, before beginning a new business career. In 1988, he was appointed an account manager for Tampa's First Florida Bank. He was also involved with these organisations: 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 surprise that In 1982 the Junior Chamber of Commerce named Lee Roy one of the country's top 10 young men. Lee Roy was 6'2" tall and weighed 265lbs when was playing college football. As of 1975, Lee Roy led the team. He was named an associate director of Athletics at the University of South Florida, in 1993. In 1988 He was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame. He also made an appearance in the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Parents, Lucious and Mary Selmon. were awarded the Distinguished American Award in 1989 from the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation. Henry Bellmon, the governor of Oklahoma presented it.





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