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

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This is a man who ran for more than 1,100 yards as a senior running back at Oakland Tech High School and received dozens of football scholarship offers, including one from USC. —

Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2024 According to Variety, Withers was an accomplished athlete who earned an NCAA football scholarship to Penn State University. —

Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024 And, for good measure, was an elite high school wide receiver with football scholarship offers from Georgia, Clemson, Michigan and others. —

Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024 Florida State offered him a football scholarship a few days later. —

Chad Graff, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for football scholarship

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