Best of luck in your endeaver
Look at the known 1862 photograph of the Knickerbockers, which I am very familiar with, the men are all relatively consistent in age and are all middle-aged men about 45-60 years old at the time.
It is going to be tough to explain why some of the Knickerbockers in your photo have people who look like they started shaving the previous week and some of them look like they could be the other one's grandfather.
The kid looking down, not sure who that is in your ID list, is clearly very young, perhaps 25 years old at the latest. Yet in the 1862 photograph which you use as a comparison (which is older than yours), he looks like he is 60 years old. That would eliminate him as a potential Knickerbocker immediately.
Your photo is 100% more recent than the 1862 known Knickerbocker photograph. The clothing and facial hair combined with photography method and presentation place this to c. 1870-1875, everyone in the 1862 photograph would be ten years older at least, but some have miraculously become 25-30 years old again.
A few of the other men in that photo are clearly very old, perhaps 60-70 years old. Comparing their birthdays and relative ages to one another and then seeing that those relative ages do not match well in this particular photo is an obstacle that will likely be impossible to explain without time travel.
I wish you no ill will and will gladly rescind everything I have said if it is proven incorrect, but I think with some objective thinking about the ages of the men in their totality and not individual facial analysis without context to the age of the image and the ages the men are supposed to be in that image, will be tough to explain.
Again, cool photo and interesting discussion and I wish you all the best in your continued research.
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