Huish Athletic Ground
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Huish in 1983
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| Full name | Huish Athletic Ground |
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| Location | Yeovil, Somerset, England |
| Coordinates | 50°56′32″N 2°38′13″W / 50.94222°N 2.63694°WCoordinates: 50°56′32″N 2°38′13″W / 50.94222°N 2.63694°W |
| Owner | Yeovil Town F.C. |
| Operator | Yeovil Town F.C. |
| Capacity | 9,950 (at closure) |
| Record attendance | 17,123 |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Opened | 28 August 1920 |
| Closed | 5 May 1990 |
| Demolished | 1990 |
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| Yeovil Town Football Club (1920–1990) | |
Huish Athletic Ground more commonly referred to as Huish was a football stadium located in Yeovil, Somerset. It was the second home ground of Yeovil Town Football Club, after the Pen Mill Athletic Ground which they left in 1920, until the clubs departure for Huish Park in 1990.
The ground was most famous for having an 8-foot side to side slope, and was the scene of one of the biggest FA Cup giant killings when Yeovil beat Sunderland in the fourth Round in 1949. The site is now occupied by the car park of a Tesco Extra hypermarket.
The club had initially made an approach at the end of the 1897–98 season, for the Huish field then owned by Brutton's Brewery, but this approach was unsuccessful, negotiations continued before the First World War for a move to this more central location in the town, with the club at the time playing at a ground adjacent to Pen Mill station. The summer of 1920 saw Yeovil & Petters United leave the Pen Mill Athletic Ground, after the purchase of the land at Huish from the brewery for £1,725, at the time a covenant was placed on the deal that the brewery had first refusal to buy back the land at the original figure. The name for the ground was borrowed from the name of a suburb in the town, Huish from the Old English hiwisc meaning a group of houses, or a household. The new ground located at the west end of the town centre, saw it first competitive game take place on 28 August 1920, when the reserve team played Christchurch in the Dorset League, an attendance of 1,500 witnessed Yeovil & Petters United win the match 5–0. Initially the terraces were flat with the only covered accommodation in the form of a 300-seater stand that had been brought from Pen Mill, that stand was soon extended, to include dressing rooms costing £733 and additional capacity and remained in place until 1963.
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