WHAT IS TOUCH FOOTBALL?
Touch is a modified version of tackle football, involving less contact and therefore less equipment. Touch Football provides participants with the opportunity to develop skills, tactics and strategies useful within Touch, Tackle and Flag Football.
Why Play Touch Football?
- Fun!
- Exciting!
- Fast!
- Inexpensive!
- Safe!
- Enjoyable!
- Social!
- Co-Educational!
- Teaches skill, agility, finesse!
- Easy to organize! High Participation!
- Excellent form of physical activity
- Promotes “sport for life” opportunities!
- Develops life skills through sport; teaches cooperation, self-discipline, and sportsmanlike conduct, builds self-confidence and improves self-image!
Who Plays Touch Football?
Touch is played by men, women, and children of all ages. People can play recreationally in parks, as part of school intramural programs and on a more competitive level within organized leagues. Touch Football can be easily adapted for all ages and abilities.
Where is Touch Football Played?
The game is generally played on a regulation size Canadian football playing field (110 yards by 65 yards or 100 metres by 60 metres) but alternatively, where no such facilities are available, any level surface with perimeter boundaries that approximate the regulation field dimensions will suffice.
Touch football is also a great activity for a large indoor space.
How Do You Play Touch Football?
Objective of the game
The objective of touch football is the same as its tackle counterpart; i.e.:
- To outscore your opponents by scoring touchdowns.
- Two teams of varying numbers (2 – 11 players per teams) compete against each other.
- One team, “the offense”, has possession of the ball and attempts to move the ball downfield across their opponents’ goal line.
- Their opposition, “the defense”, attempts to stop them from accomplishing the task.
What Equipment is Required?
Touch Football requires very little equipment other than comfortable clothes and a pair of sports shoes for participants, and of course, a football.
