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	Jules Rimet: The man who kicked off the World Cup - Independent Online Edition > Profiles
		Rimet was born in Haute-Saone in eastern France in 1876.
		Rimet and others were instrumental in developing the game in France and in the first efforts to create a world football body, the Federation International de Football Association in 1904.
		Jules Rimet was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1956 but was rejected by the Norwegian jury.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/profiles/article625122.ece (1698 words)

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		Jules Rimet, president of FIFA from 1921-1954, is credited with founding the idea for the World Cup.
		But once the tournament resumed in 1950, FIFA renamed the trophy the Jules Rimet Cup, after the tournament's founding father.
		The Jules Rimet Cup was given to the winner until 1970.
	www.unc.edu /~tcandon/research.htm (1749 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend / Sport - Solid gold mystery awaits the final whistle
		The French football official Jules Rimet commissioned the trophy from the French sculptor Abel Lafleur for the first World Cup in 1930.
		Now there were two Jules Rimet trophies: the real one and the replica, identical to the layman’s eye.
		In 1983 the Jules Rimet was stolen from the Brazilian FA’s headquarters.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/87e8256e-cbcc-11da-a7bf-0000779e2340.html (1012 words)

	Jules Rimet Trophy - the World Cup
		From 1930 to 1970, the Jules Rimet Trophy was awarded to the winner of the World Cup of Football.
		To prevent the Nazis from confiscating the golden Jules Rimet Trophy, Dr. Ottorino Barassi, an Italian sports official, smuggled the trophy from the bank in Rome, and hid it under his bed for most of the war time before the 1950 World Cup.
		After the Jules Rimet trophy was paraded by the Brazilian players after the 1970 Final match, the top of the trophy disappeared.
	www.topendsports.com /events/worldcupsoccer/world-cup.htm (584 words)

	Worldwide Soccer information at SoccerNetUsa.com \| The Center of Soccer Tournaments and World Cup Soccer 2006
		Jules Rimet became 3rd President on 1 March 1921.
		One ought to talk about a "Jules Rimet Era" because he managed to reorganise FIFA and to materialise the dream of a World Cup.
		This was again thanks to the diplomatic talent of Jules Rimet who found in Arthur Drewry and Sir Stanley Rous farsighted partners in the other party.
	www.soccernetusa.com /fifa-history.htm (1255 words)

	TheFA.com - J is for Jules Rimet
		Bobby Moore lifts the Jules Rimet Trophy after leading England to a 4-2 win over West Germany.
		The Jules Rimet Trophy was the original prize for winning the FIFA World Cup, and was lifted by England captain Bobby Moore following victory over West Germany in the 1966 final.
		The Jules Rimet Trophy was won outright by Brazil in 1970 after their third World Cup triumph, with the current trophy first presented in 1974 to champions West Germany.
	www.thefa.com /England/SeniorTeam/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/England_AtoZ_J.htm (377 words)

	Jules Rimet Cup The World Cup
		The World Cup (The Golden Nike) was founded in 1930 by Frenchman Jules Rimet, the creator of the world championship games.
		In 1950 the statuette was named the Jules Rimet Cup after its founder.
		It was a trophy passed on to each winner and the team to win the tournament three times got to keep it (Brasil achieved this in 1970).
	footballisthelove.netfirms.com /jules_rimet_cup_the_world_cup.htm (178 words)

	World Cup History - Previous and Present World Cup tournament
		In 1950 the statuette was named the Jules Rimet Cup after its founder.
		It was a trophy passed on to each winner and the team to win the tournament three times got to keep it (Brazil achieved this in 1970).
		The tournament using Jules Rimet Cup was organized for a total of 9 times from 1930 to 1970.
	www.all-soccer-info.com /World_Cup_History.htm (1132 words)

	IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone: WORLD CUP WILLY - OR WON'T HE?; GELBE SEITEN AGAIN
		This was the conjoined hearing of (i) an application by Jules Rimet against the FA to stay proceedings in the High Court and (ii) an application by the FA to stay proceedings in the Trade Marks Registry.
		Jules Rimet now complained that thereafter the FA, which had lodged an opposition to Jules Rimet's application, had induced the broadcasting company to breach the licensing agreement by threatening to sue it.
		Jules Rimet disagreed, arguing that the Trade Marks Registry was the more appropriate forum to try the proceedings as the cost of litigation for the parties would be less and the litigation would be faster.
	ipkitten.blogspot.com /2006/08/world-cup-willy-or-wont-he-gelbe.html (1015 words)

	Jules Rimet - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jules Rimet (born October 14, 1873 at Theuley-les Lavoncourt, France, died October 16, 1956) was president of the French football federation from 1919 to 1945 and of FIFA from 1921 to 1954.
		On Rimet's intiative, the first Football World Cup was held in 1930 (see Football World Cup 1930).
		The Jules Rimet Trophy was named in his honour.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Jules_Rimet (84 words)

	FIFA HISTORY
		It was composed of the following: Jules Rimet as Chairman, the Dane, Louis Oestrup as Deputy Chairman and Carl Anton Wilhelm Hirschmann as Honorary Secretary.
		President Jules Rimet was the driving force in all sectors in the search for the means to materialize this dream.
		Four years later, at the 5th World Cup in Switzerland, which was inaugurated by Jules Rimet in Lausanne, the 80 year-old President retired at the Congress in Bern.
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		Rimets powers of persuasion soon proved to be too much for the FIFA Executive Committee to withstand, and by 1926 he had succeeded in nominating a special committee to study the possibility of holding a World Championship.
		Rimet realised that this was a wise Choice, as Europe would still be recovering from the War years -and he also perceived the wisdom in attributing the 1954 edition to Switzerland, whose neutrality had ensured a measure of stability during the intervening period.
		Rimet's 33-year term of office eventually came to an end at the 1954 Congress in Berne, his last ceremonial act be mg to officially open the World Cup in Lausanne, at the age of 81.
	www.gravesendrefs.currantbun.com /nl(mar99).htm (2499 words)

	International Football Hall of Champions Inductee
		Jules Rimet was born in Theuley-les Lavoncourt, Franche-Comte, in 1873, and is remembered as the father of the World Cup.
		A year later, Rimet was provisonally placed in control of FIFA, and was subsequently elected President in 1921.
		In 1955, the year of his death on October 15, Jules Rimet was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
	www.ifhoc.com /inductees/1998/rimet.html (157 words)

	Football: THE MAN WHO KICKED OFF THE WORLD CUP Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		That was not his vision." To the end of his life in 1956, Jules Rimet predicted that international football would recreate the spirit of medieval "chivalry".
		M. Rimet regarded the obsession of M. Coubertin, and others, with the preservation of amateurism in sport as a form of snobbishness and social exclusion.
		M. Rimet and others were instrumental in developing the game in France and in the first efforts to create a world football body, the Federation International de Football Association in 1904.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060605/ai_n16454828 (922 words)

	Jules Rimet
		Jules Rimet wurde 1921 zum Präsidenten der FIFA gewählt.
		Nach dem dreimaligen Gewinn der Brasilianer bei der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1970 in Mexiko ging dieser Pokal ganz in den Besitz Brasiliens über.
		Der damals 81jährige Jules Rimet übergibt bei seinem letzten WM-Turnier als Präsident der FIFA dem deutschen Mannschaftskapitän Fritz Walter nach dem Spiel den Weltpokal.
	www.adam-riese.de /Jules_Rimet.html (246 words)

	Trophy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In honor of the FIFA president, the cup was later dubbed the Jules Rimet Trophy.
		Later, during a public exposition prior to the 1966 England FIFA World Cup, the Jules Rimet trophy was stolen.
		After Brazil took home the Jules Rimet Trophy for good in 1970, FIFA organized a competition for the re-design of the prestigious prize.
	www.rmhc.com /usa/sports/cup/tournament/tropy.html (576 words)

	FIFA World Cup
		On 13th July 1930 in Pocitos Stadium, Uruguay, Jules Rimet saw the competion he had invented kick-off, the first game was between France & Mexico.
		Winning the orginal Jules Rimet trophy once in 1954 & the first winners of the new trophy at home in 1974, they went on to win it again in 1990.
		After winning the orginal Jules Rimet trophy in 1958, 1962 & again in 1970, Brazil were allowed to keep the trophy as they had won it 3 times.
	members.tripod.com /fifa_world_cup0 (411 words)

	ESL Quiz - The World Cup (Vera Mello) I-TESL-J (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jules Rimet, the third president of FIFA, takes the credit ___ the idea of ___ the world's best national football teams to decide the world champions.
		Jules Rimet Cup was awarded ___ Brazil after ___ third World Cup triumph in Mexico in 1970.
		In 1983 Jules Rimet Cup was stolen in Brazil and ___.
	a4esl.org /q/h/vm/worlcup.html (277 words)

	Papipoul's Blog - FOX Sports Blogs
		es Rimet was president of the French Football Federation from 1919 to 1945 and third FIFA head from 1921 to 1954.
		Under Monsieur Rimet's tenure, two major achievements 1) the first Football World Cup in 1930 (above) and 2) the Jules Rimet Trophy that was named in his honor(on the right side).
		For some reasons, it was reported that Jules Rimet has a fondness for kippers.
	community.foxsports.com /blogs/Papipoul/Wikipedia_the_free_encyclopediaFIFAAssociation_Football_PortalAFCCAFCON/67495 (975 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend / Sport - Solid gold mystery awaits the final whistle
		The French football official Jules Rimet commissioned the trophy from the French sculptor Abel Lafleur for the first World Cup in 1930.
		Now there were two Jules Rimet trophies: the real one and the replica, identical to the layman’s eye.
		In 1983 the Jules Rimet was stolen from the Brazilian FA’s headquarters.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/87e8256e-cbcc-11da-a7bf-0000779e2340.html (1021 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - WORLD CUP 2006
		The evidence suggests very strongly that there were two motives around when the idea of a World Cup surfaced in the early 1920s, and two men with conflicting reasons for their common cause.
		Jules Rimet gets all the credit these days, and his notion that "soccer could reinforce the ideals of a permanent and real peace" has been repeatedly trumpeted as the inspiration of the worldwide football competition.
		They were the first country to lift the trophy that had already been dubbed the 'Jules Rimet Trophy'; it was a 35cm high golden winged victory statue on a wooden base, and it had been decided that whoever was first to win the competition three times would keep the trophy in perpetuity.
	www.rte.ie /sport/worldcup/features/wc_history.html (571 words)

	De Coupe Jules Rimet en de FIFA World Cup Trophy
		In 1921 werd Jules Rimet gekozen tot voorzitter van de internationale voetbalfederatie FIFA.
		In 1946 werd de bokaal omgedoopt in 'Coupe Jules Rimet', ter ere van de voorzitter van de FIFA, die het initiatief tot het eerste WK voetbal had genomen.
		Omdat Brazilie de Coupe Jules Rimet in 1970 voor de derde keer had gewonnen, mocht de Braziliaanse voetbalbond de wisselbeker definitief in haar bezit houden.
	homepage.mac.com /henktukkers/iblog/C836512485/E614175668/index.html (436 words)

	CNNSI.com - CNNSI.com's complete coverage of the FIFA World Cup - Trophy as filled with history as World Cup - Tuesday ...
		In 1946 with the war over, FIFA renamed the cup the "Jules Rimet Cup" to honor the FIFA president from 1921-54.
		Unlike the Rimet Cup, which was passed from winning nation to winning nation, this one is FIFA's permanent property.
		The new Jules Rimet Cup was cast out of 1.8 kilos (3.97 pounds) of pure gold and again mounted on lapis lazuli.
	media.cnnsi.com /soccer/world/2002/world_cup/news/2002/06/25/trophy_ap (792 words)

	LE RED STAR, memories of a legend
		"Jules Rimet, who grew up under the patronage of La Rochefoucauld, was well-placed to understand the role which sport could play.
		Rimet was invited to continue his work there.
		In February 1897, Jules Rimet called a meeting with his brother Modeste, his brother-in-law Jean de Pessac, Georges Delavenne, Charles de Saint-Cyr and Ernest Weber in a café.
	www.allezredstar.com /archives/en_book1.htm (760 words)

	Gulf Times â€“ Qatarâ€™s top-selling English daily newspaper - Sport
		But sporting politics delayed for decades the dreams of Jules Rimet and Henri Delaunay, the two visionary Frenchmen who had conceived the idea at around that time.
		Rimet, the FIFA president, commissioned a study, and at the Olympics in Amsterdam in 1928, the president of the commission entrusted with undertaking the study, Henri Delaunay (secretary-general of the French football federation, FFF) announced a World Cup would be held for the first time in 1930.
		Uruguay, the 1924 and 1928 Olympic winners and celebrating the centenary of their independence, were chosen as the hosts of the first World Cup, but it was not without controversy.
	www.gulf-times.com /site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=90335&version=1&template_id=49&parent_id=29 (3758 words)

	El Porvenir \| Alemania 2006 \| Copa Jules Rimet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jules Rimet nació en Francia, el 24 de octubre de 1873.
		Durante su vida, Jules Rimet resultó ser un apasionado del fútbol y otros deportes aunque más que jugarlo a un alto nivel, le atraía lo relacionado a la organización del mismo y se dedicó a crear oportunidades de juego para los deportistas.
		Rimet trasladó su espíritu apasionado y unificador a la FIFA (creada en 1904) logrando en 1920, presidir provisionalmente dicho organismo, y en 1921, fungiendo ya como presidente de la FIFA.
	www.elporvenir.com.mx /notasA.asp?nota_id=67391 (603 words)

	The Jules Rimet Trophy - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jules Rimet, president of the French Football Federation from 1919 to 1945 and of FIFA from 1921 to 1954, was born on October 14, 1873 at Theuley-les Lavoncourt, France,
		Two years before the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930, the newly drafted regulations stipulated that the winners should be rewarded with a new trophy, with French sculptor Abel Lafleur being assigned this prestigious task.
		With the Jules Rimet Cup now in the permanent possession of Brazil after their third World Cup triumph in Mexico City in 1970, FIFA commissioned a new trophy for the tenth World Cup in 1974.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may312006/update1045202006531.asp (628 words)

	World Cup founder's Catholic roots
		The FIFA World Cup competition now under way in Germany was known originally as the Jules Rimet Cup in honour of its French founder, a committed Christian inspired by a vision of "universal brotherhood", according to the Agence France Presse.
		Born in 1873, Jules Rimet moved with his family to Paris where he became involved in a parish youth club and a Catholic workers study circle where he "discovered" football.
		In 1921, Rimet was also elected president of FIFA and set out to organise a world cup tournament.
	www.cathnews.com /news/606/72.html (432 words)

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