Los Angeles Football Teams History
Los angeles city section football teams post world war ii to present 1.
Los angeles football teams history. Los angeles chargers history including past stats and statistics results scores rosters and draft results. 1893 the california league los angeles angels and the team from stockton play a nighttime exhibition game the first ever night professional baseball game on the pacific coast. 1899 an elevated bicycle path is constructed between los angeles and pasadena. They did no better than a500 mark once during their first six seasons.
The chargers are based in the greater los angeles area and have appeared in one super bowl 1995. 5 founded in oakland in 1960 the team moved to los angeles in 1982. 4 in 1960 team moved to san diego and the nfl after only one season in los angeles then returned to los angeles in 2017 after 57 years. Los angeles chargers american professional gridiron football team that plays in the american football conference afc of the national football league nfl.
Tomlinson ladainian ladainian tomlinson 2002. The rams franchise was founded in 1936 as the cleveland rams in the short lived second american football league before joining the nfl the next year. The los angeles rams are a professional american football team that plays and competes in the national football league nfl. In 1946 the franchise moved to los angeles.
They then disbanded for a year in 1943 because of the manpower shortages of the world war ii era. Team history one of the national football leagues oldest franchises the rams began their football life in cleveland in 1937. Home teams los angeles chargers last game standings team rankings ydsgame 3674 10th 3131 6th rush ydsgame 908 28th 1128 18th pass ydsgame 2766 6th 2002 5th ptsgame 211 21st 216 14th chargers leaders passing yardage philip rivers4615 rushing yardage melvin gordon612 receiving yardage keenan allen1199 chargers schedule preseason regular season chargers team. In addition to the nfl los angeles has been represented by almost every other high level professional football league.
The game is played at athletic park in los angeles. Even though they won the afl western division championship in 1960 the los angeles chargers received meager fan support so hilton buoyed by the encouragement. It returned to oakland in 1995. Rbdb mike mcclure rb jimmy vaipou wrdb wesley walker lb brad vaughn lb marvin morris db danny kay db sam harper c kim wiese ot chris alberg og pete minko ot meki solomona og kise fiatoa.
The chargers were born on august 14 1959 when barron hilton a 32 year old hotel executive was awarded a franchise for los angeles in the new american football league.