Can anyone identify this player?

[tinyzombies]

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[Staniowski]

First person i thought of was Louis Berlinguette....a resemblance....but I'm not sure.

 

[JMCx4]

Google Lens fails this challenge. But their translation of the hand-written note makes for some head scratching moments ...

 

[tinyzombies]

Google Lens fails this challenge. But their translation of the hand-written note makes for some head scratching moments ...

"(Let me?) remind you of the exploits that we have all accomplished in the world of hockey. -R. Ouimet" Or Guimet? Looks like Quebec Bulldogs colors, but it doesn't say QUEBEC across the front.

 

[JMCx4]

"(Let me?) remind you of the exploits that we have all accomplished in the world of hockey. -R. Ouimet" Or Guimet? Looks like Quebec Bulldogs colors, but it doesn't say QUEBEC across the front.

"Ouimet" seems the more likely surname, strictly (and loosely) based on current era hockey players with that last name. Either way, you are tantalizingly closer to the player ID. Maybe you could reach out to one or more HF members with SIHR contacts.

ETA: The Google Lens app translation was FAR more colourful than your logical interpretation ...

 

[MXD]

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The picture does look quite a bit like Joe Malone. Who played for the Québec Bulldogs

 

[ae530]

I believe that is the great Joe Malone

 

[Yozhik v tumane]

I like these challenges haha.

I don’t speak French (took classes 20 years ago, didn’t stick!), but trying things out in Google Translate, I got something like:
“te raipexer le exploits accomplie taie deux dans le monde au hockey”, translated into: “you will be the second most accomplished hockey player in the world”

Makes me wonder who number one is?

Not entirely convinced it’s Joe Malone. Nor the Quebec Bulldogs, are there other examples of that jersey for them?

 

[overpass]

I like these challenges haha.

I don’t speak French (took classes 20 years ago, didn’t stick!), but trying things out in Google Translate, I got something like:
“te raipexer le exploits accomplie taie deux dans le monde au hockey”, translated into: “you will be the second most accomplished hockey player in the world”

Makes me wonder who number one is?

Not entirely convinced it’s Joe Malone. Nor the Quebec Bulldogs, are there other examples of that jersey for them?

te rappeler les exploits que nous avons accomplis tous deux dans le monde du hockey.

translates to what tinyzombies posted.

The note may be signed by M. Raphael Ouimet, sports editor of La Patrie (a daily newspaper in Montreal) in the 1900s and 1910s.

 

[Yozhik v tumane]

te rappeler les exploits que nous avons accomplis tous deux dans le monde du hockey.

translates to what tinyzombies posted.

The note may be signed by M. Raphael Ouimet, sports editor of La Patrie (a daily newspaper in Montreal) in the 1900s and 1910s.

Dammit, how could I miss that he’d provided that translation? I blame a lack of sleep and rushed readings through my work day.

Great find on who might have signed the note!

 

[MadLuke]

I think even if we think significantly younger than the usual Malone picture it is a bit too different to be him and not just the hair.

 

[Magicman]

Hair parted on the wrong side for Malone.

Based solely on the hair style, comment about being second best comment by a sports editor and picture, I say it's a young Jack MacDonald.

 

[tinyzombies]

That's def not Joe Malone.

The corner of the photo is signed as well.

SOmething written at the top of the photo and crossed out as well maybe:

 

[sr edler]

That is a gazillion percent not even remotely close to be Joe Malone.

Most likely it's a random non-famous player, meaning not a household name.

 

[Crosby2010]

Yeah not Joe Malone. Malone has that look to him where as he would have been an Italian Mobster if he wasn't a hockey player. Or I always thought. Plus the iconic dark circles around his eyes, which the guy in this picture doesn't have. He has a passing resemblance to Newsy Lalonde, but hardly a dead ringer. And this picture looks old, to the point where the 1930s looks too modern for this photo. So it doesn't seem to me as if it was a star player.

 

[rmartin65]

And this picture looks old, to the point where the 1930s looks too modern for this photo. So it doesn't seem to me as if it was a star player.

The sport had stars before the 1930s...

 

[Crosby2010]

The sport had stars before the 1930s...

I know, but I checked a bunch of names from the 1920s and before and there isn't a match. And it looks too old to be in the 1930s so I didn't bother checking for a match

 

[JMCx4]

... Based solely on the hair style, comment about being second best comment by a sports editor and picture, I say it's a young Jack MacDonald.

i assume you mean the former Quebec Bulldog et.al. who played from 1917 to 1922. Here's the cartoon image from his Wiki page. Not much to go on.

 

[Yozhik v tumane]

The one player I wanted him to be yesterday, based on the Bulldogs lead, was Rockett Power:

At least I thought there’s more of a resemblance here than between Malone and the face on the picture, but beyond that I guess I just wanted the name Rockett Power to fit the face in the original post.

Here’s a better picture of Jack MacDonald mentioned:

I dunno.

I read somewhere that padded hockey gloves were invented in 1904, which makes me think the original picture was taken later than that at least.