football scholarship

noun

: an amount of money that is given by a school to a student to help pay for the student's education in order for the student to play football for the school

attending college on a football scholarship

Examples of football scholarship in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Jackson attended the University of Illinois in 1959 on a football scholarship before transferring and graduating from North Carolina A&T College in 1964. —Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 17 Feb. 2026

Jackson was a star quarterback on the football team at Sterling High School in Greenville, and accepted a football scholarship from the University of Illinois. —Sophia Tareen, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026

Instead, Jackson accepted a football scholarship from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. —Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026

If the domination ended when Maye grew up and earned a football scholarship to North Carolina, the psychological battles never did. —Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for football scholarship

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