page_title: List of events at Soldier Field
section_title: 1932
hierarchical_section_title: List of events at Soldier Field / 1930s / 1932
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustrates Chicago Century of Progress fair site, 1933-1934
context_page_description: Soldier Field is a stadium that opened in 1924. It has primarily served as the home field of the Chicago Bears professional football club for over four decades, but it also hosted numerous other events in its more than 90 years of existence. The Bears' intent was originally to move from Wrigley Field to Northwestern's Dyche Stadium, but that move was blocked by Evanston as well as the Big Ten Conference, so they later took the City of Chicago up on their offer to move into Soldier Field where they have since played. Soldier Field has hosted a great variety and quantity of events since it opened.
context_section_description: June 24 Soldier Field hosted a war show celebrating the bicentennial of George Washington's birth. The show took up residence at Soldier Field for an eleven-day run. The show was opened at 8pm with a flyover by four squadrons of fighter planes escorting a plane being flown by Amelia Earhart and painted to resemble a red and white eagle. Amelia later landed and made her way to the stadium, where she was given a gold medal and she spoke to the crowd (as well as an audience listening to a radio broadcast of the event) about her flight across the atlantic the previous year.
  In 1932 the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus visited Soldier Field's parking lot.
  June 24-July 4 Soldier Field held the United States Army Military Tournament to celebrate the George Washington Bicentennial. The event included aerial demonstrations, combat enactments, artillery demonstrations, Olympic-style athletics competition,  a parade, and pyrotechnic displays. Involved in the aerial demonstrations was Major Gerald E. Brower.
  July 27 Soldier Field held the second-ever Chicago Golden Gloves tournament. More than 45,000 spectators attended (organizers of the event lauded it as the largest crowd in the world to have ever seen an amateur boxing tournament).  This tournament featured Olympic-caliber participants from Germany. American participants won 4 of the matches, and German participants won four as well. Three of the German participants (bantamweight Hans Ziglarski, featherweight Josef Schleinkofer, and welterweight Erich Campe) would go on to win silver in the boxing competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles several weeks later.
  A 1932 Post-Olympic track meet was held at Soldier Field featuring teams from 15 nations. Notable participants included US Olympian Ralph Metcalfe.
caption: Soldier Field (far left) and the adjacent Century of Progress World's Exposition in 1933
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