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Lee Roy Selmon has a tradition that blends family scholarship football and volunteering for the community. He was the youngest son from Lucious Selmon, and Jessie Semon. They raised him on the farm they owned in Eufala. Another reason for his football career was that Selmon is the youngest of three brothers who played for Oklahoma. All three made 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 top lineman from the United States. The three years he was a starter Oklahoma was 32-1-1 and also won two championships at the national level. In 1975, the National Football Foundation named him as a Scholar-Athlete three times time in 1975. Selmon earned a degree as an educator. Lee Roy spent ten hours per week volunteering in his college days. After graduation, he moved in Tampa and played nine years for the Buccaneers. He made the All-Pro for three occasions. After that, he began his career. In 1988, while working as an account representative at First Florida Bank of Tampa He was a member of 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 recognized Lee Roy as one of the Ten of America's top young men. Lee Roy, a 6-2-inch larger and weighing 256 pounds in college as player, commanded his team during the season of 1975. He joined the University of South Florida as associate director of athletics. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1993 by the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame of 1994 as well as by The Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. Parents, Lucious and Mary Selmon Sr. were awarded the Distinguished American Award in 1989 from the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation. Henry Bellmon, the governor of Oklahoma awarded it.