a Rhodes scholarship simply pays for tuition costs. It is given to the best minds who are also outstanding athletes. Bill Bradley was a Rhodes scholar as was former QB Pat Haden, a noted Kiwi rugby player David Kirk, and a FL Seminole DB Myron Rolle. Of course, Bill Clinton and a host of other luminaries were as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Scholarship

standards are:

—literary and scholastic attainments;
—energy to use one’s talents to the full, as exemplified by fondness for and success in sports;
—truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship;
—moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to take an interest in one’s fellow beings.