Touch Football is one of the only sports that was invented in Australia. It's a sport that's been formally recognised for more than 50 years. The sport's Golden Jubilee was celebrated in 2018.

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The founding fathers of Touch Football were Bob Dyke and Ray Vawdon, of the South Sydney Junior Rugby League Club, who invented it as a method of training for Rugby League and as a means of allowing retired players to keep running around in a competitive game.

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By 1968, Touch Football had become a stand-alone sport when the South Sydney Touch Football Club was formed. 

 

Touch Football was originally devised as a method of training for Rugby League teams, however, it was quickly evident that Touch Football was an excellent sport for people of all ages, demographics and sporting abilities. It swiftly became recognised as a social sport in which men and women could compete together, and from that point the development and expansion of the sport was rapid.

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