Lee

Lee Roy Selmon blends the benefits of a football scholarship within his family and volunteering in the community. His family's first name is his father was the youngest of the nine children raised in Eufala with Lucious Selmon. In second football, he was the third brother who played for Oklahoma. Three of them were All-Americans. Lucious Jr. Dewey & Lee Roy started for one season in 1973. Lee Roy was named the best offensive lineman in the country by Outland and Lombardi Awards. Over the course of three seasons, Roy was a starter, Oklahoma won two National Championships. In 1975, Selmon was awarded the third scholarship of his career and was named a National Football Foundation scholar-athlete. Selmon earned a degree in Education. Lee Roy was involved in volunteer work ten hour per week throughout his college years. Then he settled in Tampa following college. He was a member of the Buccaneers for nine years and was three-times all-pro. His business career began. The first position he held was a Account Relations Officer with First Florida Bank, Tampa. He was a member previously 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 among the top 10 youngsters in the US. When he was a student Lee Roy was 6-2 and weighs a little over 256 lbs. He captained his college team in 1975. In 1993, he became the assistant director of the University of South Florida. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988, and the GTE Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1994, and then the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1989, the Oklahoma City Chapter National Football Foundation gave the Distinguished American Award Mr. Lucious Sr. Henry Bellmon, the governor of Oklahoma awarded it.