Details the history, formation, and development of the Los Angeles Rams football team. Highlights individual players and coaches who impacted the team and includes a timeline, statistics, quotes, a glossary, and additional sources of information.
The Rams are ready to lock horns! Through narrative nonfiction, timelines, and fun facts, readers will engage with the history and superstars of the Los Angeles Rams like never before.
No other football team had been as creative as the Los Angeles Rams when they painted horns on their helmets in the late 1940s. The horn insignia remains today along with the team’s spunk and fortitude. Pick up this engaging title and enjoy learning more about the Los Angeles Rams!.
four men, two teams, and the breaking of pro football's color line
Atwood, Gretchen
Many know the story of Jackie Robinson integrating major league baseball in 1947. But few know that the NFL integrated a year earlier, when Kenny Washington stepped on the field for the Los Angeles Rams.
He wasn't the only one. Four men broke pro football's color line in 1946, Kenny Washington and Woody Strode with the Los Angeles Rams and Bill Willis and Marion Motley with the Cleveland Browns.
Lost Champions traces this history from the early 1930s--when NFL owners first instituted a ban on black players--through pro football's re-integration, to the 1950 NFL Championship Game, which pitted the Rams and Browns against each other in a showdown of the most prolific and advanced offenses pro football had ever seen.
