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Jules Rimet: The man who kicked off the World Cup - Independent Online Edition > Profiles (1698 words) |
 | 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. |
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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. |
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