When did athletics become a professional sport?

Answer 1

Rugby League split from Rugby Union to become professional in 1895. Rugby Union would not become professional for a hundred years, until after the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Answer 2

Rugby Union became a professional sport in the wake of the World Cup in 1995 (officially on the 26th of August 1995).

Answer 3

You have to be drafted out of college or high school sometimes it depends on the sport.

Answer 4

depends on the sport they traced the first professional Basketball team back to the 1870s or so

Answer 5

Athletics is not a professional sport

Answer 6

2 years ago

Answer 7

1920