Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today, at the Stadium at Soldiers Field, we, in our sober gray uniforms, will envy you for your raccoon coats and gayly-colored scarfs. We well envy you for your dates after the game. In our staid military formation, we will envy you for the girl at your side. But these are merely passing fancies. Offer us all of the freedom in the world; offer us New England's culture; offer us John Harvard's learning and variety of courses: we would be tempted; but we would choose West Point
...Freshman football team is scheduled for one of the stiffest games of the season today when it encounters the Worcester Academy team at 2.30 o'clock on Soldiers Field...
...same sentiment, somewhat complicated but inspired by the same spirit, prevails between the Midshipmen and Cadets and their older brothers, the officers of the Navy and the Army. When the horns of the goat tangle with the elongated ears of the mule upon the athletic field a partisan feeling that claims every spectator be he uniformed or casual, blazes from the stands. To the fevered eye of the midshipman no more damnable sight appears upon the horizon than the solid bank of frenzied, gesticulating, grey-coated maniacs that occupies the opposite stand. For an hour or two he hurls epithets...
...then the day arrives when the Army team appears upon the field against an alien foe. Another adversary seeks to trample the Black and Grey and Gold in the dust of defeat. It may be a worthy foe whose prowess threatens to send the Cadets back to the Highlands of the Hudson sadder and wiser men. But be the threat great or small it has always been the pride of Navy men that when their brothers in khaki sally forth to battle they will find their blue-clad shipmates behind them to a man, glorying in their victories and suffering...
...discusses here. It has no bearing on the larger issue. In fact, to a certain extent it simplifies the problem of partisanship, for under the present circumstances, as in later life, the Navy man may give his unqualified support to his Army brother whenever he sallies forth upon the field of glory...