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Originally Posted by prewinter
The photo includes 14 players plus the manager, which seems to be the number of players with the club in late April, 1888 when the season started. Those players were:
George Backer, James Curry (Player-manager), Pit Gilman, Robert Hamilton, Jack Handiboe, Jim Handiboe, Carl McVey, John Munyan, Joe Neale, Jerry O'Brien, Charles Pike, Billy Rourke, Ernest Smith, Patrick Welsh, and Buck West.
Of these, six seem to have been with the club all season: Gilman, Hamilton, both Handiboes, Munyan and Smith.
The club seems to have had no more than 14 players in September, including the manager Arnold, who took over for Curry. Pete Sommers was on the club at the end of the season, so I can see if he might be in the photo, and that could help nail the time frame.
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I had thought that the player in the back row, far left, was Fred Mann. He joined the team in late summer, after the Southern League (where he had been playing) folded. I do not have suggested IDs for any of the others.
Edited to add: I must admit that the player back row, far left, could also be Rourke or O'Brien. IDs are difficult when so many players have similar ethnic backgrounds and have similar mustaches.
Mann / Back Row Far Left / Rourke / O'Brien