Biography
Reeves was born of Irish American parents, the son of Irish immigrants James Reeves and Rose Farrell. His father and an uncle, Daniel, had risen from fruit peddlers to owners of a grocery-store chain, bringing wealth to the family. A graduate the Newman School in Lakewood, New Jersey, Reeves attended Georgetown University, but left before acquiring his degree. While attending Georgetown, Reeves met, courted and then married the former Mary V. Corroon on October 25, 1935.
Boasting some of football's most glamorous stars, the Rams won four divisional titles in seven years and the NFL championship in 1951. The effect at the gate was astounding. Topped by a crowd of 102,368 for a San Francisco 49ers game in 1957, turnouts in the Los Angeles Coliseum surpassed 80,000 on 22 occasions during the Rams' first two decades in California. Reeves, with friend and business partner Robert Levy, purchased the Rams for $100,000 USD in 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio, eventually relocating the franchise to Los Angeles in 1946, fresh off of an NFL Championship season the year before, in 1945.
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