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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.

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

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

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

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Athletics is not a professional sport

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