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Lee Roy Selmon's story combines the football scholarship of his family as well as service to the community. The first line of his family was that he's the youngest out of the nine children raised in Eufala through Lucious Selmon. A second reason was his father was the only of three brothers who played with Oklahoma. All three made All-America. Lucious Jr. Dewey was a starter for the entire 1973 season. Lee Roy is the winner of both Outland Awards as well as Lombardi Awards. He was the top lineman for across the country. Over the course of three seasons, Roy was on the field, Oklahoma won two National Championships. The third scholarship was awarded to him. He was as a National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete in 1975. Selmon graduated with a degree from the university of California, Berkeley. Lee Roy spent ten hours per week volunteering during his college years. Following college, he relocated in Tampa and played for nine years with Tampa's Buccaneers. He was an All-Pro three times. He then began his professional career. In 1988, while working as an account liaison officer for First Florida Bank of Tampa and worked for the Special Olympics Easter Seals Baptist Church Ronald McDonald House United Negro College Fund South Florida Institute Black Life Hall of Fame Bowl Committee. It was the Junior Chamber of Commerce honored him in 1982 as being one of the top 10 youngsters in the US. Lee Roy weighed 256 lbs and was a tall of 7-foot-2. In his time at for college, he was the head coach of the 1975 team. In 1993, Roy was a part of at the University of South Fla's athletic department as assistant director. In 1988, he was voted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The same year, he also was a part of an appearance in the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation gave its Distinguished American Award for 1989 to Lucious Selmon, Sr. Henry Bellmon is the Oklahoma governor that made the award.