{"id":408090,"date":"2025-11-27T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408090\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:12:18","slug":"soldier-field-dedicated-during-army-vs-navy-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408090\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier Field dedicated during Army vs. Navy game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 27, according to the Tribune\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n<p>Is an important event missing from this date? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/11\/27\/chicago-history-november-27\/mailto:krumore@chicagotribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"C3uecXh1vt\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/11\/29\/thanksgiving-weather-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanksgiving weather in Chicago: The most extreme conditions since 1872<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Weather records <\/strong>(from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/wrh\/climate?wfo=lot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Weather Service, Chicago<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High temperature: <strong>67 degrees<\/strong> (1990)<\/li>\n<li>Low temperature: <strong>2 degrees<\/strong> (1887)<\/li>\n<li>Precipitation: <strong>2.93 inches<\/strong> (1990)<\/li>\n<li>Snowfall: <strong>5.8 inches<\/strong> (1891)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Gustave Marx, Harvey Van Dine and Peter Neidermeyer known together as the &quot;Car Barn Bandits&quot; were caught by police on Nov. 26, 1903, near Tolleston, Indiana. (Chicago Tribune)\" width=\"2160\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CTC-L-CAR-BARN-BANDITS-CAUGHT-1903-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"29992778\" \/>Gustave Marx, Harvey Van Dine and Peter Neidermeyer \u2014 known together as the &#8220;Car Barn Bandits&#8221; \u2014 were caught by police on Nov. 26, 1903, near Tolleston, Indiana. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1903:<\/strong> The <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagotribune.newspapers.com\/article\/chicago-tribune-car-barn-bandits-tired\/162943739\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCar Barn Bandits\u201d<\/a> were captured by police. Gustave Marx, Harvey Van Dine and Peter Neidermeyer were Chicago\u2019s first celebrity criminals. From July 8 to Nov. 27, 1903, they conducted a spectacular crime spree during which they \u201ckilled eight men, including two detectives, wounded five others and committed eight robberies\u201d totaling roughly $2,400. One of those took place at a North Avenue saloon (today it\u2019s a playground), where the trio killed two patrons in the course of robbing the bar of $8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2002\/12\/22\/the-bad-old-days-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marx was caught first<\/a> \u2014 \u201cYou can\u2019t do anything to me,\u201d he protested upon being locked up. \u201cI only shot a cop! Anybody\u2019s got a right to shoot a cop!\u201d \u2014 and he ratted out his comrades, revealing the location of their hideout in the Indiana dunes. Returned to Chicago for a trial, the three were \u201ctreated more like conquering heroes or visiting celebrities than like desperate criminals,\u201d with the detectives who captured them extolling their marksmanship before crowds of reporters and onlookers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TbHb0jHBhU\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/01\/05\/chicago-bears-green-bay-packers-history-rivalry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers have played 210 times in the past 100 years. Here\u2019s how the rivalry has unfolded.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>1921:<\/strong> George Halas scored the final touchdown in the first meeting of the Chicago Bears, who were then known as the Chicago Staleys, and the Green Bay Packers. The <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagotribune.newspapers.com\/article\/chicago-tribune-staleys-whale-green-bay\/160611317\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Staleys won 20-0<\/a> at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"u7ZmVdyK4Q\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/08\/05\/from-halas-to-covert-the-30-chicago-bears-inducted-into-the-pro-football-hall-of-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From Halas to Hester: The 32 Chicago Bears inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>1922:<\/strong> The Bears\u2019 first player deal. The team bought future Hall of Fame tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballhof.com\/players\/ed-healey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Healey\u2019s contract<\/a> from the Rock Island Independents, <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagotribune.newspapers.com\/article\/chicago-tribune-rock-island-independents\/185700431\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nine days after the teams faced each other<\/a>, for $100 (or about $2,000 in today\u2019s dollars) \u2014 twice the going rate for a franchise that season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The official dedication ceremony for Soldier Field was held on Nov. 27, 1926, in front of a crowd of 110,000 during the Army vs. Navy game. The game ended in a 21-21 tie. The field first opened as Municipal Grant Park Stadium on Oct. 9, 1924. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)\" width=\"5720\" height=\"369\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CTC-L-CTHIST-ctc-l-soldier-field-03b_229047243.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"29993710\" \/>The official dedication ceremony for Soldier Field was held on Nov. 27, 1926, in front of a crowd of 110,000 during the Army vs. Navy game. The game ended in a 21-21 tie. The field first opened as Municipal Grant Park Stadium on Oct. 9, 1924. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1926:<\/strong> Navy was awarded the national championship despite its game against Army <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagotribune.newspapers.com\/article\/chicago-tribune-army-navy-thrill-all-ev\/162117765\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ending in a 21-21 tie<\/a> before 110,000 fans at Soldier Field, which was dedicated that day. Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne missed his own team\u2019s game to attend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Dr. Marjorie Stewart Joyner stands by an exhibit of her life on display at the A. Montgomery Ward Gallery at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Feb. 15, 1985. (Ovie Carter\/Chicago Tribune)\" width=\"6191\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CTC-L-MARJ-JOYNERJPG-CT0128351120.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"15646101\" \/>Dr. Marjorie Stewart Joyner stands by an exhibit of her life on display at the A. Montgomery Ward Gallery at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Feb. 15, 1985. (Ovie Carter\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1928:<\/strong> Marjorie Stewart Joyner received a U.S. patent for a <a href=\"https:\/\/patentimages.storage.googleapis.com\/ee\/b1\/b0\/d20f3003e81944\/US1693515.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permanent waving machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The South Side beautician \u2014 who was among the first Black women in the U.S. to receive a patent \u2014 didn\u2019t think there was anything spectacular about the permanent hair-waving machine she invented, when interviewed by the Tribune in 1989.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"dACSQONVh6\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2024\/02\/15\/vintage-chicago-tribune-inventions-and-innovations-by-black-chicagoans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vintage Chicago Tribune: Inventions and innovations by Black Chicagoans<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt all came to me in the kitchen when I was making a pot roast one day, looking at these long, thin rods that held the pot roast together and heated it up from the inside,\u201d Joyner said. \u201cI figured you could use them like hair rollers, then heat them up to cook a permanent curl into the hair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"More than 120,000 spectators watched Austin High beat Leo High 26-0 to win the city's prep football title on Nov. 27, 1937, at Soldier Field in Chicago. (Chicago Tribune)\" width=\"1957\" height=\"335\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CTC-L-AUSTIN-LEO-CITY-PREP-GAME-1937-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"29994048\" \/>More than 120,000 spectators watched Austin High beat Leo High 26-0 to win the city&#8217;s prep football title on Nov. 27, 1937, at Soldier Field in Chicago. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1937:<\/strong> Approximately 120,000 people turned out to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagotribune.newspapers.com\/article\/chicago-tribune-austin-defeats-leo-26-t\/159582406\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin beat Leo 26-0<\/a> in the city prep football title game at Soldier Field.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Dave Williams is mobbed by teammates after returning the overtime kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown and the victory over the Detroit Lions at the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1980. (David Nystrom\/Chicago Tribune)\" width=\"1862\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CTC-L-ctc_l_1980_bears_lions_01_1050737324_1050859205_214874564.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"29994214\" \/>Dave Williams is mobbed by teammates after returning the overtime kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown and the victory over the Detroit Lions at the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1980. (David Nystrom\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1980:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2016\/08\/10\/nov-27-1980-dave-williams-ot-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Williams\u2019 95-yard kickoff return<\/a> for a touchdown \u2014 on the first play of overtime \u2014 gave the Bears a 23-17 Thanksgiving Day win over the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Three inches of snow recorded on Thanksgiving in Chicago in 1980<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Runners in the Rosemont Turkey Day 10K were surprised by about 3 inches of snow on Nov. 26, 1980. (Carl Hugare\/Chicago Tribune)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"440\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/QJBJKAG62VFSHPNJ5HPXPQVJ3U.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"38004\" \/>Runners in the Rosemont Turkey Day 10K were surprised by about 3 inches of snow on Nov. 26, 1980. (Carl Hugare\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also in 1980:<\/strong> A record snowfall of <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagotribune.newspapers.com\/article\/chicago-tribune-snow-hikes-holiday-toll\/160446590\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 inches<\/a> fell at Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport, making it the snowiest Thanksgiving in the city\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Pat Ewert, left, and her partner Vernita Gray on Sept. 9, 2010. (Chris Walker\/Chicago Tribune)\" width=\"3012\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CTC-L-CT-MET-SAME-SEX-MARRIAGE_CT_181858825.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"29993301\" \/>Pat Ewert, left, and her partner Vernita Gray on Sept. 9, 2010. (Chris Walker\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2013:<\/strong> Vernita Gray and Patricia Ewert, longtime gay rights activists and a well-known Chicago couple, were wed in Illinois\u2019 first legal same-sex marriage. They were given their marriage license more than six months before the state law legalizing gay marriage took effect because Gray had terminal cancer. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2014\/03\/20\/longtime-chicago-gay-rights-activist-dies-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died<\/a> in March 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Want more vintage Chicago?<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/membership.chicagotribune.com\/newsletters\/subscribe\/lid\/2d8200fe-eefd-4f1d-bcaa-26a0ce79a461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/membership.chicagotribune.com\/newsletters\/subscribe\/lid\/2d8200fe-eefd-4f1d-bcaa-26a0ce79a461\">Vintage Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0newsletter, join our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/762760217263236\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/762760217263236\/\">Chicagoland history Facebook group,<\/a> stay current with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/tag\/chicago-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Today in Chicago History<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vintagetribune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vintagetribune\/\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0for more from Chicago\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p>Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? 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