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Lee Roy Selmon blends the merits of football scholarship in his home with the benefits of community service. The first line of his family was that he's the youngest out of the nine children raised in Eufala through Lucious Selmon. In football, he played with his three brothers from Oklahoma. All three became 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 most effective lineman in the United States. He won two championships and the score was 32-1-1 over his three seasons as the Oklahoma's starting linebacker. Selmon was honored when the National Football Foundation named him as a Scholar-Athlete three times time in 1975. Selmon holds a bachelor's degree in educational studies. Lee Roy spent ten hours per week volunteering during his college years. Following college, he moved to Tampa and played for nine seasons with the Buccaneers played all-pro three times and started an entrepreneurial career. In 1988, while working 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. In 1982, the Junior Chamber of Commerce honored his name in 1982, as one of the top 10 youths from the United States. Lee Roy was 6'2" tall and weighed 265 pounds when he played college football. In 1975, he led the team. In 1993, he joined the university of south Fla's athletic department as the assistant director. He has been inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame since 1988. His parents, Lucious and Mary Selmon Sr. were awarded the Distinguished American Award in 1989 from the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation. The award was presented by Henry Bellmon govenor of Oklahoma.





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