Charity Bowl Winners
Since 1994, the first game of the ACTGL Senior season has been given the title of the Charity Bowl with funds raised on the day going to local charities. Since 1998, all funds have been donated to the ACT Cancer Society in memory of Shane Gray, a founding member, former player and official of the ACT Gridiron League who died of cancer in 1996. The winning side receives the Charity Shield, a perpetual trophy donated by former ACT Chief Minister and ACT Gridiron patron Trevor Kaine.
The first Charity Bowl was played between the Tuggeranong Tornadoes and the Queanbeyan Wolverines. Since then, the game has been scheduled between the holders of the Charity Shield and the defending Capital Bowl champions. If one team holds both trophies, the opponent is the team which lost the Capital Bowl the previous year.
| Year | Team |
|---|---|
| 2012 | University of Canberra Firebirds |
| 2011 | University of Canberra Firebirds |
| 2010 | Tuggeranong Tornadoes |
| 2009 | Tuggeranong Tornadoes |
| 2008 | University of Canberra Firebirds |
| 2007 | University of Canberra Firebirds |
| 2006 | University of Canberra Firebirds |
| 2005 | Astros |
| 2004 | Tuggeranong Tornadoes |
| 2003 | Astros |
| 2002 | Astros |
| 2001 | University of Canberra Firebirds |
| 2000 | Tuggeranong Tornadoes |
| 1999 | Tuggeranong Tornadoes |
| 1998 | Tuggeranong Tornadoes |
| 1997 | Canberra Tigers |
| 1996 | Tuggeranong Tornadoes |
| 1995 | Tuggeranong Tornadoes |
| 1994 | Tuggeranong Tornadoes |
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Famous quotes containing the words charity, bowl and/or winners:
“With a smile of Christian charity great Casey’s visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult, he made the game go on;”
—Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863–1940)
“Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!
Our virgins dance beneath the shade—
I see their glorious black eyes shine;
But gazing on each glowing maid,
My own the burning tear-drop laves,
To think such breasts must suckle slaves.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)