List of Los Angeles Rams head coaches

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The Los Angeles Rams are a professional football team based in Inglewood, California. They are members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).[1] The Rams played their first season in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. During World War II, the Rams did not play during the 1943 season because of wartime restrictions and shortages.[2] The team became known as the Los Angeles Rams after it moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946. After the 1979 season, the Rams moved south to the suburbs in nearby Orange County, playing their home games at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim for fifteen seasons (1980–1994) but kept their Los Angeles name. The club moved east to St. Louis, Missouri before the 1995 season, and moved back to Los Angeles before the 2016 season.

The NFL considers the franchise to be a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the second American Football League. Although the NFL granted membership to the same owner, the NFL considers it a separate entity because only four of the players (William "Bud" Cooper, Harry "The Horse" Mattos, Stan Pincura, and Mike Sebastian) and none of the team's management joined the new NFL team.[3][4]

There have been 26 head coaches for the Rams franchise. Damon Wetzel became the first head coach of the Rams in 1936, when it was called the Cleveland Rams. He served for one season before he was replaced by Hugo Bezdek. Sid Gillman and George Allen were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as coaches. Dick Vermeil is the only coach to win a Super Bowl championship for the St. Louis Rams.

Rich Brooks was the first coach for the team in St. Louis. After struggling to win, Brooks was fired and replaced by former Philadelphia Eagles head coach, Dick Vermeil. Vermeil went on to win the Super Bowl XXXIV in 1999. His offensive coordinator, Mike Martz, took over after Vermeil retired for the second time. Mike Martz has the best winning percentages in St. Louis Rams history. Since Martz's firing the Rams have had Joe Vitt coach interim, Scott Linehan was his successor and replaced by Jim Haslett once he, himself, was terminated in the early part of the 2008 season. The franchise's current head coach is Jeff Fisher, who has gone 27–36–1 as head coach through four seasons in charge.

Key

# Number of coaches [A]
GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
T Ties
Win% Winning percentage
00† Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
00‡ Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player
00* Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Rams

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2015 NFL season.

# Name Term Regular Season Playoffs Achievements Reference
GC W L T Win% GC W L Win%
Cleveland Rams
1 Damon Wetzel [a] 1936 9 5 2 2 .714 — [2]
2 Hugo Bezdek* 1937–1938* [b] 14 1 13 0 .071 — [5]
3 Art Lewis* 1938* 8 4 4 0 .500 — [6]
4 Dutch Clark ‡ 1939–1942 44 16 26 2 .386 — [7]
[c] 1943
5 Buff Donelli 1944 10 4 6 0 .400 — [8]
6 Adam Walsh* 1945–1946* 21 15 5 1 .738 1 1 0 1.000 1945 Pro NFL Coach of the Year[9] [10]
Los Angeles Rams
7 Bob Snyder* 1947* 12 6 6 0 .500 — [11]
8 Clark Shaughnessy* 1948–1949* 24 14 7 3 .645 1 0 1 .000 [12]
9 Joe Stydahar ‡ 1950–1952 [d] 25 17 8 0 .680 3 2 1 .667 [13]
10 Hamp Pool* 1952–1954* 35 23 10 2 .685 1 0 1 .000 1952 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year[14] [15]
11 Sid Gillman † 1955–1959 60 28 31 1 .475 1 0 1 .000 [16]
12 Bob Waterfield ‡* 1960–1962* [e] 34 9 24 1 .279 — [17]
13 Harland Svare 1962–1965 48 14 31 3 .322 — [18]
14 George Allen † 1966–1970 70 49 17 4 .728 2 0 2 .000
List
  • 1967 AP NFL Coach of the Year[19]
    1967 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year[14]
    1967 UPI NFL Coach of the Year[20]
 [21]
15 Tommy Prothro 1971–1972 28 14 12 2 .535 — [22]
16 Chuck Knox 1973–1977 70 54 15 1 .778 8 3 5 .375
List
  • 1973 AP NFL Coach of the Year[19]
    1973 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year[14]
    1973 Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year[23]
    1973 UPI NFC Coach of the Year[24]
 [25]
17 Ray Malavasi 1978–1982 73 40 33 0 .547 6 3 3 .500 [26]
18 John Robinson* 1983–1991* 143 75 68 0 .524 10 4 6 .400 [27]
— Chuck Knox [f] 1992–1994 48 15 33 0 .312 — [25]
St. Louis Rams
19 Rich Brooks* 1995–1996* 32 13 19 0 .406 — [28]
20 Dick Vermeil 1997–1999 48 22 26 0 .458 3 3 0 1.000
List
  • 1999 AP NFL Coach of the Year[19]
    1999 Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year[14]
    1999 Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year[23]
    1999 Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year[29]
 [30]
21 Mike Martz* 2000–2005* [g] 85 53 32 0 .623 7 3 4 .429 [31]
22 Joe Vitt 2005 11 4 7 0 .364 — [32]
23 Scott Linehan* 2006–2008* 36 11 25 0 .344 — [33]
24 Jim Haslett 2008 12 2 10 0 .166 — [34]
25 Steve Spagnuolo* 2009–2011* 48 10 38 0 .208 — [35][36]
St. Louis Rams and Los Angeles Rams
26 Jeff Fisher 2012–Present 64 27 36 1 .430 — [37]

Notes

  • A A running total of the number of Rams head coaches. Thus, any head coach who has two or more separate terms is only counted once.
  • a Damon Wetzel was a player-coach for the Rams in 1936.
  • b Hugo Bezdek was released after three games in 1938.
  • c The Rams suspended operation during the 1943 season because of wartime restrictions and shortages.
  • d Joe Stydahar resigned after one game in 1952.
  • e Bob Waterfield resigned after eight games in 1962.[38]
  • f Knox's full coaching record with the Rams is 118 regular season games coached with a record of 69–48–1 and a W–L percentage of .589
  • g Mike Martz took medical leave after five games in 2005.

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