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Lee Roy Selmon's tale combines football scholarships for his family and service to the community. His first family is that Selmon is the eldest of nine kids raised by Eufala with Lucious Selmon. Second football he was the third brother who played for Oklahoma. Three brothers all made All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey, Lee Roy, and Lucious Jr. Dewey started the 1973 season. Lee Roy has won both the Outland Award as well as the Lombardi award as the best lineman in the country. During his three-year tenure as the starting quarterback for Oklahoma The Sooners recorded a 32-1-1 record and won two national titles. He received a third scholarship in 1975. He was also designated an National Football Foundation Student-Athlete. Selmon received a bachelor's degree from the university of California in Berkeley. Lee Roy was involved in volunteer work ten hour per week throughout his college years. In Tampa the Buccaneers, he was a player for the Buccaneers for nine seasons before becoming an all-pro. Also, he began a career in business. In 1988, while working as an account relations officer at First Florida Bank of Tampa, he worked with Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. He was no surprise that, in 1982, The Junior Chamber of Commerce named Lee Roy among the top 10 young stars throughout the United States. When he was a student Lee Roy was 6-2 and was weighing 256 pounds. He captained his college team in 1975. He joined University of South Florida in 1993 as an assistant director of sports. The College Football Hall of Fame named the player on the 28th of October, the year 1988. 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 awarded their Distinguished American Award, to Mr. Lucious Selmon and his wife. Henry Bellmon, the governor of Oklahoma awarded it.
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