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Lee Roy Selmon's lifestyle includes football scholarship, family work and involvement in the community. First of all the Selmons were raised by Lucious as well as Jessie Selmon, on a farm near Eufala in Oklahoma as the youngest of the nine children they had. In football, he played with his three brothers from Oklahoma. The three brothers were all All-America. Lucious Jr. Dewey & Lee Roy started for one season in 1973. 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 Oklahoma's starting quarterback, the Sooners went 32-1-1 and won two national championships. The National Football Foundation named him an Scholar-Athlete for the 3rd time in 1975. Selmon received a degree in education. Fourth service In the college Lee Roy devoted ten hours each week on volunteer work. Following college, he moved to Tampa playing nine years for the Buccaneers were an all-pro three times before beginning a business career. In 1988, while working as an account liaison officer for First Florida Bank of Tampa He was a member of 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's no wonder that Lee Roy was honored when the Junior Chamber of Commerce designated Lee Roy as one of the top 10 young men across the nation. Lee Roy weighed 256 lbs and stood at a height of 6-2. In his time at college, he commanded the 1975 team. He joined at the University of South Florida as an associate director of athletics. The College Football Hall of Fame named his in 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 presented its Distinguished American Award, to Mr. Lucious Selmon and his wife. Henry Bellmon is the Oklahoma governor who made this presentation.
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