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Lee Roy Selmon's life is one of football scholarships, family involvement as well as community involvement. His first family is that he's the youngest out of the nine children raised by Eufala through Lucious Selmon. He played football with three of his brothers from Oklahoma. Three of them were All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey was an All-Star for the whole 1973 season. Lee Roy has won both the Outland Award and the Lombardi Award as the best lineman in the country. For three seasons as an offensive lineman, Oklahoma was 32-1-1 and also won two championships at the national level. In 1975, he was awarded his third scholarship and was recognized as an National Football Foundation scholar-athlete. Selmon earned his master's degree in educational studies. Lee Roy dedicated ten volunteer times a week in college. Following college, he relocated to Tampa and played nine years with the Buccaneers. He made the All-Pro for three occasions. Then he started his career. The first job he had was a Account Relations Officer with First Florida Bank, Tampa. He was a member in the past for Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. So it's not surprising that in 1982 the Junior Chamber of Commerce named Lee Roy as one of America's top 10 young men. Lee Roy weighed 256 lbs and stood at a height of 7-foot-2. When he was playing college, he was the captain of the team of 1975. In 1993, he was a part of at the University of South Florida as associate director of athletics. He was named associate director of athletics by the College Football Hall of Fame was named for him on the 28th of October, 1998. GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame, in 1994. Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1989, the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation gave the Distinguished American Award, to Mr. Lucious Selmon and his wife. Henry Bellmon the Governor of Oklahoma was the person who presented the award.





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