During the match at Middlesbrough, the Sheffield United directors received several telegrams relative to the condition of Frank Levick. The first showed that it was virtually unchanged, the second that he had been able take nourishment, and this was reasonably regarded vary promising sign, but, before the team left the ground, came a third toiling the sad news that the life of this most promising player was ended, and that, despite the constant care and unremitting attention of Dr. Selby, death had supervened. general regret will be occasioned by the news, and a wide-spread sympathy felt towards the deceased’s relatives. Very popular with his colleagues, thoroughly good sportsman who liked the game in which he was engaged, and very promising player, well an exceedingly pleasant man, he has died all too soon. Nothing was left undone that could help him in his extremity, but, foreshadowed Thursday morning, the grip of the illness was so severe as to always lead the gravest, forebodings. He will much missed, not only in his club circle, but amongst his friends.
THE LATE FRANK LEVICK. The. deepest sympathy for the relatives of the Frank Levick, the Sheffield United forward, who died on Saturday at the early age of 25, after a brief illness from double pneumonia, was expressed yesterday afternoon by the hundreds of people, many of them from distant parts of the city, who were present when the remains were interred at Tinsley Church. The space in the churchyard was not large enough to accommodate all who attended to pay their last tribute popular and a good player both football and cricket, one who had sprung into prominence so quickly. The football clubs with which he was connected were strongly represented, and eight of the members of the Sheffield United team acted as bearers, they being Benson, Leivesley, C. Johnson, Lipsham, W. Wilkinson, Batty, Booth, and Bromage.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 03 February 1908
