The Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 23rd year with the National Football League and the 15th season in Los Angeles. Under first-year head coach Bob Waterfield, the team won four and lost seven with one tie, placing the Rams in sixth place in the Western Conference, ahead of only the winless expansion Dallas Cowboys. Their most notable win was an upset of the Green Bay Packers at Milwaukee on Four weeks later in the season finale, the Packers returned the favor in Los Angeles to win the Western It was also the first season in which the Rams would share the same venue as the upstart Los Angeles Chargers of the American Football League (AFL) before the team would leave for San Diego in 1961. The Rams would not share the same venue with the Chargers until 2020 when both teams would move into SoFi Stadium in the suburb of Inglewood.

In the pre-season, the Rams played the Cowboys in rural northeastern Oregon, at Pendleton's rodeo grounds on Sunday,

Offseason NFL draft

Undrafted free agents

+ 1960 undrafted free agents of notePlayerPositionCollegeVern ValdezDefensive backSan DiegoDanny VillanuevaKickerNew Mexico State

Roster

Schedule Week Date Opponent Result Record Venue Attendance 1 St. Louis Cardinals L 21–43 0–1 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 47,448 2 October 2 at San Francisco 49ers L 9–13 0–2 Kezar Stadium 53,633 3 October 9 at Chicago Bears L 27–34 0–3 Wrigley Field 47,776 4 October 16 at Baltimore Colts L 17–31 0–4 Memorial Stadium 57,808 5 October 23 Chicago Bears T 24–24 0–4–1 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 63,438 6 October 30 Detroit Lions W 48–35 1–4–1 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 53,295 7 November 6 at Dallas Cowboys W 38–13 2–4–1 Cotton Bowl 16,000 8 November 13 at Detroit Lions L 10–12 2–5–1 Briggs Stadium 54,019 9 November 20 at Green Bay Packers W 33–31 3–5–1 Milwaukee County Stadium 35,763 10 Bye 11 December 4 San Francisco 49ers L 7–23 3–6–1 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 77,254 12 December 11 Baltimore Colts W 10–3 4–6–1 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 75,461 13 Green Bay Packers L 21–35 4–7–1 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 53,445 Note: Intra-conference opponents are in bold text. A bye week was necessary in , as the league expanded to an odd number (13) of teams (Dallas); one team was idle each week.

Standings

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