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Lee Roy Selmon's tale combines an athletic scholarship to his parents and commitment in the local community. Selmon is the youngest of children from Lucious Selmon, and Jessie Selmon. They had him raised on their property in Eufala. In second football, he was one of three brothers who played for Oklahoma. The three brothers were all All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey, Lee Roy, and Lucious Jr. Dewey started the 1973 season. Lee Roy won the Outland and Lombardi Awards as the nation's top lineman. Oklahoma has won two National Championships during his time as a lineman. Selmon received a third scholarship in 1975, and was named as an National Football Foundation Student-Athlete. Selmon earned a bachelor's in the field of education. Fourth-year service in college Lee Roy devoted ten hours each week on volunteer work. Then he settled in Tampa following college. He played with the Buccaneers for nine years and was three-time all-pro. The business venture he started began. When he was in the year 1988, he began working as an Account Relation Manager for First Florida Bank in Tampa. The bank was also a partner of the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute and for the Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. No wonder that In 1982 the Junior Chamber of Commerce named Lee Roy one of the country's 10 outstanding young men. Lee Roy was 6'2" tall and weighed 265 pounds at the time playing in the college football league. In 1975, he led the team. He was promoted to associate director of Athletics at the University of South Florida, in 1993. It was the College Football Hall of Fame honored him in the year 1988. GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame was in 1994. Pro Football Hall of Fame In 1995. The Selmons' parents Lucious and Mary Selmon Sr. received the Distinguished American Award in 1989 from the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation. Henry Bellmon, the governor of Oklahoma gave it to them.





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