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CISInternational History Canada West OUA QSSF AUS Canada West OUA QSSF AUS CIS 5 Year Championship Schedule Womens Basketball Mens Basketball Final 8 Cross Country Curling Womens Field Hockey Football Desjardins Vanier Cup Womens Ice Hockey Mens Ice Hockey University Cup Womens Rugby Womens Soccer Mens Soccer Swimming Track & Field Womens Volleyball Mens Volleyball Wrestling Basketball Cross Country Curling Field Hockey Ice Hockey Rugby Soccer Swimming Track & Field Volleyball Wrestling Basketball Curling Cross Country Football Ice Hockey Soccer Swimming Track & Field Volleyball Wrestling SSN Canada Website SSN Canada Webcast Schedule 5 Partant QSSF Basketball Show CIS Touchdown Football Show SSN Webcast Schedule Canada West Broadcast Schedule OUA Broadcast Schedule QSSF Brodcast Schedule AUS Broadcast Schedule International Programs Committee About International Program Services International History StudentAthlete Info Members Info FISU World University Championships Universiades Past Medalists Official BLG Website BLG Awards History History 200809 Desjardins Top 8 Academic AllCanadians test International HistoryFISU was officially formed in 1949 but its origin goes back to the 1920 when the Frenchman Jean Petitjean organised the first World Student Games in Paris in May 1923The following year saw the birth of the International Confederation of Students (ICS) which held a congress in Warsaw Several delegations took part and the movement was launched From 1925 to 1939 many great sporting events were organised by the students and the ICS in Prague in 1925 Rome in 1927 then again in Paris Darmstadt (1930) Turin (1933) Budapest (1935) Paris (1937) Monaco (1939)The Second World War interrupted these meetings but when peace was restored France relaunched the World University GamesThis peace was relative because the shadow of the Cold War soon divided university sport In 1949 although the International Students Union (ISU) organised Games at which very few Western countries participated the International University Sports Federation (FISU) born the previous year in Luxembourg was officially founded and organised its first International University Sports Weeks bringing together the western delegations These meetings took place notably in Merano (1949) Luxembourg (1951) Dortmund (1953) and San Sebastian (1955)In a new departure in 1957 the French Federation organised a World University Sports Championship which brought together students from Eastern and Western blocksFrom this meeting came the desire to organise a universal event in which students from all over the world could participateIn 1959 FISU and the ISU agreed to participa...