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The team became known as the Rams of Los Angeles after they moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946. Then after the 1979 season, they moved to the south suburbs in Orange County next door and started playing their games in the Anaheim Stadium. They played there for 15 years and kept the Los Angeles name. Then the team was moved to St. Louis just before the 1995 season. Homer Marshman was the Cleveland Rams founder in 1936. Their name came from the nickname from Fordham University. Rams was a term that was used to honor the football players’ hard work ethic that came from the University of the same name. They were originally of the new American football League and they finished their first year with a 5-2-2 record. It was the next year that the team joined the NFL and was placed in the Western Division. They were like a lot of the teams from that era in that the manpower shortages caused by World War II caused them to have to suspend play during the 1943 season. They did resume play …