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

Bell, a Kansas City native, was committed to play basketball at Missouri State before Jim Harbaugh came in with a football scholarship. —Manny Navarro, New York Times, 1 June 2026

Utu is 6-foot-4 and 320 pounds and is on his way to Southern Methodist University on a football scholarship. —Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 10 May 2026

While Dennis Hernandez had been a local star athlete who peaked with a football scholarship to the University of Connecticut, Aaron Hernandez became one of the country’s top recruits at Bristol Central High School in Connecticut from 2003 to 2007. —Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026

Jackson received a football scholarship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. —Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026

Rhymes for football scholarship

• associateship
• bipartisanship
• conservatorship
• distributorship
• proprietorship
• secretaryship
• airship
• airstrip
• clerkship
• courtship
• equip
• filmstrip