Huddersfield Atalanta Ladies Football Club was a women's football club in

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confl ...

, West Yorkshire, England, from 1920 to about 1925. It took its name from

Atalanta Atalanta (; ) is a heroine in Greek mythology. There are two versions of the huntress Atalanta: one from Arcadia (region), Arcadia, whose parents were Iasus and Clymene (mythology), Clymene and who is primarily known from the tales of the Caly ...

, the fierce huntress of Greek mythology.

Players

Constance Waller was a founder member and secretary of the club, as well as the first woman reporter on a provincial newspaper, The Examiner of Huddersfield. Ethel Lee played as a goalkeeper, Lucy Barraclough as captain and fullback alongside Hilda Clarke with Lily Mitchell as an outside half and Rhoda Wilkinson in outside-right. Miss H Broadhead was a goal scorer in a match against Bath Ladies at Leeds Road on Good Friday, March 25, 1921, in front of a crowd of 15,246 who turned up to see the team win 1–0.

Commemoration

Its story forms the basis of the play ''Atalanta Forever'' by

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, commissioned by the

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for its 2020 season, delayed by the

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, and produced in 2021. Huddersfield Town Women F.C. was formed in 1988 as Huddersfield Town Ladies F.C.

References

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