How to Use football scholarship in a Sentence

football scholarship

noun
  • Then, just before Grant was ready to sign with Yale on a football scholarship, his hometown school called.
    — Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 24 July 2024
  • Florida State offered him a football scholarship a few days later.
    — Chad Graff, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Derek, tall and buff, had arrived at MSU from Atlanta on a football scholarship.
    — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Although Forest went to college on a football scholarship, an injury led him to abandon sports and pursue singing and acting.
    — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The family always talked about Elmer’s amazing football scholarship that got him through college, Shuff said.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • McVea was a standout running back and was the first Black player to receive a football scholarship to a major Texas school.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • His efforts earned him a track and football scholarship to the University of Minnesota.
    — Greg Hyatt, NBC News, 26 June 2024
  • Osiris, the middle child, won a football scholarship to Stanford University but had his career cut short by injuries.
    — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 10 July 2024
  • Wheeler was also a fine amateur boxer who got a football scholarship to South Carolina.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Carly went to foster care and Spencer moved in with his grandparents and, later, his half-brother Cody, who helped get him through high school and to college on a football scholarship.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 13 July 2023
  • Dowdell planned to attend Jacksonville State University on a football scholarship.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The football scholarship that had taken him from his hometown of Savannah to Kentucky State College ran out of funding.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jayla, a New Jersey native, played on the women’s basketball team, while Bryan attended on a football scholarship.
    — Jordan Greene, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The local university — Clemson — offered him a football scholarship to play receiver.
    — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Coogler attended the university after earning a football scholarship.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The high school senior, who was set to attend Jacksonville State on a football scholarship, was shot along with multiple other teens and his mother, who sustained two gunshot wounds, per thenewspaper.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2023
  • McVea, who died Sunday at 79, was the first Black player to receive a college football scholarship to a major Texas university.
    — Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Mangini, who will play linebacker on a football scholarship at the Naval Academy next year, was decisive on the run and sliced through the big Army-Navy defensive front on crucial plays.
    — Richard J, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Willy has been in decline since losing the respect of his eldest son Biff, a once-promising high-school football star who fails his math requirement, loses his football scholarship, and discovers his father having an affair on the road.
    — Soraya Nadia McDonald, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Ray studied drafting in high school and attended Western Washington University on a football scholarship.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • Jackson received a football scholarship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Ray attended West Washington University on a football scholarship.
    — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2023
  • In 1983, Scott graduated from Stall and went to Presbyterian College on a football scholarship.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • The involved players — Gus Cordova, who had a Texas football scholarship pulled because of the incident and another teen, who has not been publicly identified — were suspended for two games before rejoining the team.
    — Rick Cantu, Austin American Statesman, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The football program agreed to a bowl ban in 2020, and reduced its football scholarship totals by eight over a two-year period and also restricted recruiting visits, evaluations and communication.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 22 June 2023

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