Star of Leven F.C.start of the 1874–75 season, one of the club's players, 19 year old Robert Atherley, a shoemaker in Alexandria, died of a ruptured stomach, after receiving
Elizabeth CassThe day after, Llewellyn Atherley-Jones, Liberal MP for North-Western Durham, first raised the case in Parliament. Atherley-Jones, a barrister by profession