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I have been a RAMS fan since the Fearsome Foursome days. I'm trying to find the name of the quarterback(s) for the team in those years just prior to Roman Gabriel. I recall Dick Bass as one of the back field players at that time
Actually Roman Gabriel shared time with Bill Munson for a year or two (seems there has been a QB controvery since Waterfield/VanBrocklyn in the early '50's)......the Gabriel/Munson controversy was big.....Munson was traded to the Lions when George Allen took over and he was a good QB allright but Gabe became the man....before Gabe the team leader was Zeke Bratkowski for a couple of years....he landed in Green Bay as a valuable backup to Bart Starr.....before that Billy Wade was the starter (about 4+ yrs)....he later went to the Bears where he won a title.....there was also another young QB at the time named Frank Ryan who went on to have a great career and won a title with the Browns in 1964.........we have had our share of great ones come thru our rosters....hope this helps...
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Were Jim and Jack Youngblood related at all? What years did they play and did they play on the Rams at the same time?
Great Question! No, Jim and Jack Youngblood were not related as so many may be lead to believe.
Jack Youngblood was drafted 1b. in the 1st round out of Florida and played from 1971 to 1984
Jim Youngblood was drafted 2c. in the 2nd round out of Tennessee Tech
and he played from 1973 to 1984.
So the non-related Youngblood duo of Jack (a DE) and Jim (a LB) played together 12 seasons for the Rams!
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Who replaced Tex Schramm as general manager of the Rams in 1957??
OK now that's a good question. Tex Schramm was replaced by a young publicity director named Pete Rozelle. In his first year as GM the Rams drafted two LA mainstays in "Jaguar" Jon Arnett, a perennial Pro-Bowler and Jack Pardee who would also go on to have a great career. In addition the Rams drafted a tackle named Billy Ray Smith, who would go on to have a great career in Baltimore. The rest, of course, is history. Midway through the 1959 season, NFL Commissioner Bert Bell died of a heart attack with the season finally behind them, the NFL team owners voted Pete Rozelle as the new commissioner ....the man who eventually elevated the NFL to number one in American team sports ahead of our "national pastime" major league baseball!
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Hi Brian,
I've got another question for you. With the Rams changing their horn color to gold, I wondered if you knew what other colors their helmets have been. I know that in St. Louis and part of their Los Angeles time, their helmets were navy with yellow horns. In Los Angeles, navy with white horns. But what about prior to that? Also, I read that during their leather helmet days, they painted the horns on. I'm just curious...
Thanks for your time.
Our friend Gabe would like a little history on the Ram's helmet. As far as the horns and colors go, this is the 4th time the helmet design has undergone changes. Originally every team wore leather helmets that were virtually identical then, in 1948, the Rams took the field with a new look. Halfback Fred Gehrke, a graphic artist in the offseason, painted yellow horns on the side of the team's blue leather helmets. The design was an immediate sensation and inspired other teams around the league to devise their own helmet designs!
Around 1965 the team went for a new look and changed the horns to white the uni's worn at home were white with blue trim the look was nice and the team even improved within the next few years as George Allen took over. Then in 1973 the team decided a new look was due. They had a contest open to the public and the winning entry is, of course, the team colors as of this past year. I personally liked this uniform the most, followed by the blue and white look. Now the team is looking to link the uniform and helmet more to St. Louis and move away from the California roots.
For the record, the original colors were royal blue and yellow gold, followed by royal blue and white, with a return to the originals. Next year we will see navy blue and "Notre Dame" gold. And an interesting note on the subject is that the original team colors of the 1937 Cleveland Rams were red and black!
Hope this answers your question Gabe.
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How did they get the name "Rams"? I know they were the Rams in Los Angeles and moved the team to St. Louis.
You asked a good question. Well it all started way back in 1936. That year a new league, "The American Football league" was about to form. An attorney named Homer Marshman offered to support a guy by the name of Buzz Wetzel (a former Chicago Bear player) who was trying to put together a team for Cleveland. The two, along with a group of others, put up a modest sum of money to enter the league. Wetzel, who was to serve as a player and coach began asking reporters for thoughts about naming the team, most agreed the name should be a short one that would easily fit into a headline. Fordham was a big football school at the time and its nickname was the Rams. Everyone agreed that it sounded right and so the Cleveland Rams were formed. That year they won five of their seven games, but played mostly in front of empty seats. The new league had no impact on fans whatsoever, to them there was only one league, the established NFL. Before the beginning of the next season Marshman was finished with the league and wondered if the Rams might be able to enter the NFL. He called Joe Carr the league president to see if there was a shot as it turns out, the league was going to add one new team. Since Cleveland had an entry in the league years before Carr told him to give it a shot. In December Marshman went to the league meetings in Chicago and applied. He was immediately rewarded a new franchise and for the cost of $10,000 and the Rams were in the NFL!
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