Bill Dahlen - Photograph Help / Your Opinion?

[docpatlv]

I thought the guy on the far right resembled him a little

[Runscott]

I think the guy on the bottom left looks like him.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I think the guy on the bottom left looks like him.

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[RUKen]

I thought the guy on the far right resembled him a little.

I think the guy on the bottom left looks like him.

They all look a little like him. Dahlen was German-American. At this school in upstate New York, it is likely that the ethnicity of all of the boys attending was German, Dutch, English, or Scotch--no Slavs, no Italian-Americans, no Hispanics, no African- or Asian-Americans. There's not a lot of difference in the faces, and Dahlen did not have any distinguishing marks that would make him easy to recognize in a photo taken when he was 18. (FWIW, I think the guy on the bottom left looks like he's 14 or 15, not 18.) To make a claim that a certain player is in a photograph, there needs to be a compelling case made that the appearance of a particular person in the photo is a good match for the player--eyes, ears, jawline, etc. Side-by-side images are very helpful with this. Dahlen might be in the group pictured, but no one has made that compelling case, and the evidence (the names written on the back) suggests that he is not among the boys in the image.