Re: Don Paul -all time great Ram linebacker
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I had been there as a youngster... A very popular restaurant! I had the ash tray too! Must have lifted it as a souvenir? I don't know what happened to it..
Coach Stydahar with (L-R): Don Paul, Tom Fears. Glenn Davis, and Dan Towler
Notice the helmets! These helmets are post horns! ???
Remembering Don Paul and the Rams Horn
There it was this morning on the obituary page, a paid announcement for a football player who was a star at UCLA and later with the Los Angeles Rams. A quick check of the Internet showed that no newspaper obits had been written on Don Paul, who died on November 8 in Woodland Hills at age 89 of what appears to be complications from Alzheimer's, but he certainly would have deserved a write-up.
Paul was an All-Pro linebacker for the Rams, a third-round draft choice in 1947 who had a stellar eight-year career in the NFL. At UCLA, he is the only player in Bruins football history to be elected team captain as a freshman.
He was a prominent member of the Rams' 1951 championship team that beat Otto Graham's Cleveland Browns, a stalwart on defense that earned him the reputation as one of the fiercest players in the league.
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add Paul: After his football career was over Paul became a football broadcaster for CBS, and also the owner of two restaurants in Los Angeles. The most well-known was the Rams Horn in Encino on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley. The Rams Horn's marquee was the figure of a noble Ram that at night shown over the sidewalk in gold light along with such other well-known eateries as the Smoke House, Monty's and Pucci's, the latter owned by Len and Mike Pucci, who also played in the NFL. The Rams Horn was well supported by Valley patrons and Paul's Rams teammates.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2023 10:25AM by Crazylegs.
Coach Stydahar with (L-R): Don Paul, Tom Fears. Glenn Davis, and Dan Towler
Notice the helmets! These helmets are post horns! ???
Remembering Don Paul and the Rams Horn
There it was this morning on the obituary page, a paid announcement for a football player who was a star at UCLA and later with the Los Angeles Rams. A quick check of the Internet showed that no newspaper obits had been written on Don Paul, who died on November 8 in Woodland Hills at age 89 of what appears to be complications from Alzheimer's, but he certainly would have deserved a write-up.
Paul was an All-Pro linebacker for the Rams, a third-round draft choice in 1947 who had a stellar eight-year career in the NFL. At UCLA, he is the only player in Bruins football history to be elected team captain as a freshman.
He was a prominent member of the Rams' 1951 championship team that beat Otto Graham's Cleveland Browns, a stalwart on defense that earned him the reputation as one of the fiercest players in the league.
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add Paul: After his football career was over Paul became a football broadcaster for CBS, and also the owner of two restaurants in Los Angeles. The most well-known was the Rams Horn in Encino on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley. The Rams Horn's marquee was the figure of a noble Ram that at night shown over the sidewalk in gold light along with such other well-known eateries as the Smoke House, Monty's and Pucci's, the latter owned by Len and Mike Pucci, who also played in the NFL. The Rams Horn was well supported by Valley patrons and Paul's Rams teammates.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2023 10:25AM by Crazylegs.
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