Amateur club football

Description:Starting from the Summer Olympics , professionals were allowed to compete in boxing, though amateur fight rules are still used for the tournament. Athletic scholarship programs, unlike academic scholarship programs, cannot cover more than the cost of food, housing, tuition, and other university-related expenses. In the UK, the Factory Act of gave working men half a day off, making the opportunity to take part in sport more widely available. Corinthian[ edit ] Corinthian has come to describe one of the most virtuous of amateur athletes—those for whom fairness and honor in competition is valued above victory or gain. The middle and upper class men who dominated the sporting establishment not only had a theoretical preference for amateurism, they also had a self-interest in blocking the professionalization of sport, which threatened to make it feasible for the working classes to compete against themselves with success. This practice, dubbed "shamateurism", was present as early as in the 19th century. In particular, only amateur boxers could compete at the Olympics up to

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