The Cleveland Rams were a professional American football team that played in Cleveland from 1936 to 1945. The Rams competed in the second American Football League (AFL) for the 1936 season and the National Football League (NFL) from 1937 to 1945, winning the NFL championship in 1945, before moving to Los Angeles in 1946 to become the first of only two professional football champions to play the following season in another city.
Hall of Fame quarterback Bob Waterfield led the Cleveland Rams to the 1945 NFL Championship.
1946 Los Angeles Rams season
The 1946 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's ninth year with the National Football League and the first season in Los Angeles. The team moved to Los Angeles from Cleveland immediately after winning the 1945 NFL Championship Game.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, home of the Los Angeles Rams, was constructed at the expense of the city's taxpayers in 1922. It was also the venue used by the highly successful collegiate football programs of Los Angeles universities USC and UCLA.
1940 Heisman winner and top pick of the 1941 NFL draft Tom Harmon was a high-profile player added to the Rams roster for the 1946 season by GM Chile Walsh.
Program for the Rams' September 6, 1946 exhibition game against the Washington Redskins, the first played by the team in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
