Los Angeles Rams is a professional American football team headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The Rams are a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division in the National Football League (NFL). The Rams share SoFi Stadium in Inglewood with the Los Angeles Chargers, where they play their home games.

The Cleveland Rams, based in Cleveland, Ohio, founded the franchise in 1936. Homer Marshman was the club’s owner.

 

Homer Marshman – Founder of Los Angeles Rams

The Cleveland Rams, today known as the Los Angeles Rams, were founded by Homer Marshman. From 1934 through 1947, Mr. Marshman, a famous Cleveland, Ohio lawyer and businessman with a Harvard Law School diploma, served as special counsel to Ohio’s attorney general.

Homer Marshman was born in 1898, Ohio, United States

He and player-coach Damon Buzz Wetzel, an All-America back from Ohio State who had played for the Chicago Bears in 1936, founded the Rams, who had one successful but financially disastrous year in the American Football League before acquiring a National Football League franchise on February 13, 1937.

Marshman and some other elements of Rams stockholders paid $10,000 for the NFL franchise and then contributed $55,000 to the new team’s capitalization.

Marshman was the owner of a number of enterprises and was also the president of the Cleveland Indians for a brief period of time.

In 1970, he moved to Palm Beach, Florida, and became active with a number of charities, including the American Cancer Society. He had two sons, Edward and Homer Jr., and one daughter, Jane Guthrie. He was married twice, first to Beatrice Noyes and then to Ina Mae.