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Lee Roy Selmon has a history that combines family scholarship football and volunteer work in the community. First family he is the youngest of the nine children of Lucious Selmon and Jessie raised on a farm at Eufala, Oklahoma. Also, he was one of three siblings that represented Oklahoma on the field of football. All three were All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey & Lee Roy started for one season in 1973. Lee Roy won the Outland and Lombardi Awards as the nation's top lineman. In the three years that Roy was on the field, Oklahoma won two National Championships. A third scholarship saw him named an National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete in 1975. Selmon was awarded a degree from education. Lee Roy dedicated ten volunteer times a week in college. Following college, he relocated into Tampa and played for nine years with Tampa's Buccaneers. He was an All-Pro three times. After that, he began his career. In 1988, he was an Account Relation Officer at Tampa's First Florida Bank and worked in these organizations: Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute as a member of the Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. It's no wonder in 1982, the Junior Chamber of Commerce named him one of the nation's most outstanding young men. When he was a student Lee Roy was 6-2 and was weighing 256 pounds. He captained his college team in the year 1975. He was promoted to the assistant director of Athletics at University of South Florida. In 1988, Selmon was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He also made an appearance in the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame as well as the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation awarded its Distinguished American Award for 1989 to Lucious Selmon Sr. Henry Bellmon is the Oklahoma governor who made this presentation.