Saturday, September 27, 1890
Watford Rovers played their first game at the Cassio Road ground against A.T.B.Dunn's XI, Fred Sargent and Walter Coles amongst the squad.
The team was soon to change its name to West Herts as part of the deal that enabled them to use the facility.
Reproduced by kind permission of Matt Rowson from his book,Watford FC On This Day
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