After playing its first eight games on the road, scattered across the country, Hartford Athletic returned to Connecticut and called Rentschler Field in East Hartford home for seven games. The team had no issues drawing fans. Its average attendance of 5,910 is good for 11th in the league, out of 36 teams. Nielsen and Co. lauded the fan support from the start, though in a 40,000-seat stadium such as Rentschler, it was sometimes easy for the fans to feel “lost,” as he put it.