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Minium: Dennis Ellmer, Charity Bowl Raised $800,000 Friday Night for Local Charities

By Harry Minium

With less than two dozen players, there weren't quite enough guys and gals to field two complete football teams at the 52nd annual Priority Automotive Charity Bowl Friday night at S.B. Ballard Stadium.

That didn't matter, as they split up into smaller teams, and played for more than an hour anyway. The game wasn't a full-speed affair, given the diversity of ages and genders, but was fun to watch, especially because it featured some former Old Dominion football stars.

Yet the most important part of the game, said Ray Potter, who helped found the game in 1968, "is what they're doing up there," he said, pointing to the Priority Automotive Club.