Mr. Harley F. Gilmore was named the first principal and athletic director by the school board on May 6, 1920, nine months before the first classes began.

He was commonly referred to as "Professor Gilmore" and the school's original football stadium (built in 1933) was named in his honor.

It was a white-stucco-covered brick and wood structure located on the southeast corner of present-day Allison-Bonnett Drive and High School Road.

[8] A fire would destroy the second-floor science rooms that were over the front central section of the main building in the late 1930s.

The entire original school was demolished in 1972, two years after the new Junior High campus was completed on Sunrise Boulevard.

Spread out much like a college campus on a gently sloping hillside, its architecture was unique among Jefferson County schools.

It featured multiple buildings scattered over several acres on heavily timbered property populated with pine trees, dogwoods, and other hardwoods.

The last academic building added to the campus was named Elm (built about 2001) and it was located between Oak and Ivy and constructed of precast concrete block with a metal hip roof.

Today, the only structure remaining from that second High School located at Dabbs Avenue is the flat-roofed red brick Athletic Field House (built in the late 1960s) and its adjacent parking lot.

The school was designed by Lathan Associates, and constructed on a 109-acre (0.44 km2) parcel of land costing 1.58 million dollars.

[15] An additional 6.4 million dollars was paid for the construction of a new football stadium in which the Gophers played their first game in the fall of 2012.

[16] In recognition of the 1958 campus, the hallways in the new school are named Main, Oak, Ivy, Pine, and Elm after those earlier buildings.

in 2018; Arthur Miller's play about the Salem Witch trials, "The Crucible" also in 2018; and the biblical musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" by Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice (2019) among others.

For many years at both of the first two campuses, the students held "Stunt Night", which was initially designed to serve as a major fundraising tool for the school.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the student's "Patriotic Committee" would enter a "float" in the National Veterans Day Parade in Birmingham each November.

During one span in the 1970s, Hueytown's students won "The Governor's Trophy" five of six successive years for the best patriotic float in the parade.

Today the school's athletic/sports teams, known as the Hueytown Golden Gophers, compete in baseball, basketball, bowling, cheer, cross-country, fishing, football, golf, softball, tennis, track & field, soccer, volleyball, and wrestling.

The next week the team played its first-ever home game against Alliance High School and won 9-0.

They would complete that inaugural season with a record of 3-4, including a loss to the Howard College Grass Cutters (Now Samford University).

The team recorded eight shutouts and outscored opponents 253-26, and it won the Jefferson County Championship (The Dental Clinic Classic) over Fairfield High School that same year by a score of 7-0.

[22] The Gophers won another County Championship in the Dental Clinic Classic in 1967 defeating Minor High School 14-6.

[23] This makes the Gophers one of the top five winningest programs among all high schools in Jefferson County history.

The second most contests have been the 77 games with Bessemer High School whom Hueytown first played in 1922 initially on an irregular basis.

Hueytown defeated Bessemer with a lone field goal 3-0 under the guidance of Head Coach John Henry Suther.

The most recent game against Bessemer in 2021 resulted in a 57-6 Gopher win, the most one-sided Hueytown victory in the history of the series.

In 1949, Hueytown defeated Shades Valley in the Dental Clinic Classic, the only game they faced against each other for the Jefferson County Championship with the Gophers winning by a score of 34-14.

The Golden Gophers football team played their inaugural game in their new on-campus stadium on August 30, 2012, defeating Pell City High School 35-34.

In addition, between 1948 and 1995, there was an annual football game called the "Dental Clinic Classic" that awarded a "Jefferson County Championship" to the winner of its contest.

In 1974, the Hueytown High wrestling team won the school's first AHSAA Championship with the 4A State Title under the guidance of then head-wrestling coach, George A.

[28] However, this alone cannot be the reason since the Hueytown High yearbook, "The Retrospect" first mentions the football team nickname 11 years earlier in 1923 as the "Gophers.".