The field hockey tournament was held (together with football) in the first part of this Olympic games.

If a player or an official accepts from club, association, or federation an amount exceeding what is strictly necessary for traveling and hotel expenses, such an amount will be regarded as profit.

Only a men's competition occurred that year, and nine nations competed: Czechoslovakia withdrew before the draw.

Nevertheless, the International Olympic Committee medal database exclusively credits them all as medalists.

However the National Olympic Committee of the Netherlands does not even show the Dutch players as competitors.