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Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey
For the Allen vs. Ganzel arguement, I think you're too easily dismissing familial similarities. That player is a dead-ringer for his brother in my opinion.
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Here are the Ganzel brothers, along with Player 9. Two things about the comparison do leave me doubting that it is Ganzel, and both may just be the angle of the Minnesota photo. The first is that the face on Player 9 seems rounder, and shorter in the chin, than the Ganzels. The second is the nose, especially as drawn on George. Something about it just seems off in the comparison.
That said, I definitely see the Ganzel comparison. I'm just trying to understand where Allen would be, especially since he was known to be on the club at whatever time the photo was taken. I suppose it is possible they were planning on cutting him instead of Ganzel, and thus didn't include him in the photo. Or maybe he overslept that day. Threads of Our Game mentions one other known photo of him from 1906. Can you point me to that?