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2008 Victory Bowl Photos
Approximately 160 football players
from opposing teams work alongside each other serving 360 man
hours for the Salvation Army in St. Paul, Minnesota helping them
to prepare to serve the needy during the Christmas season.
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Victory Bowl participants prepare food
baskets for the needy |
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Players helped register recipients for
the Operation Joy and Toys for Tots |
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Opposing team members work side by side
to package toys for underprivileged children. 12,000
families will benefit from this outreach.
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Opponents work together to write notes on
Christmas cards to be delivered to the elderly.
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Team members sort and pack clothes for
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2007 Victory Bowl Teams visited
public schools and read to the children.
The principal
writes,
“Our students were amazed at the size of the
players, but they were even more impressed with how these
athletes treated them throughout their time in our school.
I am so thankful that our students had the opportunity to see
that college athletes can be educated and, more importantly,
that they can be gentlemen. I was truly impressed with
the way these young men conducted themselves. Each of
them took full advantage of the chance to have an impact
on our children, and our youngsters will no doubt be talking
about this experience for quite some time. It only took
an hour - and your players made a difference.”
2005 Teams served the Salvation
Army during their Christian Service Project at the Victory
Bowl.
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Players
were bell ringers at the various kettles around town |
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They also worked in the clothing thrift store and warehouse,
and served in the food pantry. |
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2004 Football players collect food for the hungry
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Participants in the 2004
Victory Bowl collected food during their Christian
Service Project for the Nerison family. Over
350 items were collected.
Eric Matthew
Nerison, a 10-year-old boy who loved God, was
struck by a car in mid-November in front of his
Des Moines home as he walked to catch a ride
with friends to a church youth group meeting. |
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NCCAA Student-Athletes
present the food gathered for the Nerison family. Pictured: Olivet
Nazarene University's #55 Jeremy Robinson (LB 5'11" 210
Fr.
Schererville, Ind.) and Northwestern College's #55 Pete
Mades (SO OL 5-11 275 Plymouth,
Minn.)
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Football Players Visit Children at Local Hospitals [More]
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Players
from GWU and TIU put aside their competitive differences
to visit the children. (Shriner's Children's Hospital
& Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, SC) |
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Children
of all sizes were happy to see the football players. Each
child was given a football. |
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GWU
and TIU go head to head for the 2001 Victory Bowl
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